How to format your references using the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Aldhous, P., 2000. Protests force primate farm to close. Nature 404, 215.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stein, S., Liu, M., 2009. Long aftershock sequences within continents and implications for earthquake hazard assessment. Nature 462, 87–89.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maurya, S.R., Chaturvedi, D., Mahalakshmi, R., 2013. Modulating lipid dynamics and membrane fluidity to drive rapid folding of a transmembrane barrel. Sci. Rep. 3, 1989.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nagasaka, Y., Chao, Z.C., Hasegawa, N., Notoya, T., Fujii, N., 2013. Spontaneous synchronization of arm motion between Japanese macaques. Sci. Rep. 3, 1151.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Varrall, G., 2011. Making Telecoms Work. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Minin, I.V., 2008. Basic Principles of Fresnel Antenna Arrays, Lecture Notes Electrical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, S., 2012. The Dental School We Aspire to Work for, Be Part of, and Invest Our Future in, in: Sasaki, K., Suzuki, O., Takahashi, N. (Eds.), Interface Oral Health Science 2011. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 29–30.

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 Cognitive Neuroscience.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. World First - Baby Polar Bears Caught On Camera Opening Their Eyes For The First Time [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1989. Budgetary Implications of IRS’ Tax System Modernization and Automated Examination System Efforts (No. T-IMTEC-89-4). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ahlert, D., 2015. Application of Graph Theoretic Clustering on Some Biomedical Data Sets (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Otis, J., 2017. Academy Eases the Angst of Adolescent Refugees. New York Times A4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Aldhous, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Aldhous, 2000; Stein and Liu, 2009).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Stein and Liu, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Nagasaka et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Dev. Cogn. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	1878-9293
Scope	Cognitive Neuroscience