How to format your references using the Developmental Cell citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Developmental Cell. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Hughes, J.D. (2013). Energy: A reality check on the shale revolution. Nature 494, 307–308.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nimmerjahn, F., and Ravetch, J.V. (2005). Divergent immunoglobulin g subclass activity through selective Fc receptor binding. Science 310, 1510–1512.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lu, J., Li, W.-H., and Wu, C.-I. (2003). Comment on “Chromosomal speciation and molecular divergence-accelerated evolution in rearranged chromosomes.” Science 302, 988; author reply 988.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hankins, T.H., Kern, J.S., Weatherall, J.C., and Eilek, J.A. (2003). Nanosecond radio bursts from strong plasma turbulence in the Crab pulsar. Nature 422, 141–143.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Zinkin, J. (2013). Rebuilding Trust in Banks (John Wiley & Sons Ltd).

An edited book

Calviello, G., and Serini, S. eds. (2010). Dietary Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Cancer (Springer Netherlands).

A chapter in an edited book

Rodríguez, A., Selga, J., Martín, F., and Boria, V.E. (2013). Practical Application of Space Mapping Techniques to the Synthesis of CSRR-Based Artificial Transmission Lines. In Surrogate-Based Modeling and Optimization: Applications in Engineering, S. Koziel and L. Leifsson, eds. (Springer), pp. 81–97.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Developmental Cell.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). First Images of HIV Protein Spikes Could Lead To New Drugs or Vaccines. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/first-images-hiv-protein-spikes-could-lead-new-drugs-or-vaccines/.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1971). Fees Allowed Nonsponsored Not-for-Profit Organizations by Various Government Agencies (U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Young, W.B. (2017). First-Generation Undergraduate Researchers: Engaging and Validating Cultural Wealth-Based Self-Authors.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

de la MERCED, M.J. (2017). Lattice to Seek Trump’s Ear for Chinese-Backed Deal. New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Developmental Cell
Abbreviation	Dev. Cell
ISSN (print)	1534-5807
ISSN (online)	1878-1551
Scope	Developmental Biology