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

Nicklin, C., 2014. Chemistry. Capturing surface processes. Science 343, 739–740.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bongaarts, J., Sinding, S., 2011. Population policy in transition in the developing world. Science 333, 574–576.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maertens, G.N., Hare, S., Cherepanov, P., 2010. The mechanism of retroviral integration from X-ray structures of its key intermediates. Nature 468, 326–329.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, Y., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Kong, X., Shao, X., Chen, S., Wu, J., Jiang, X., Wang, X., An, Z., 2008. Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years. Nature 451, 1090–1093.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Richter, D.H., 2017. Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Geddes, C.D., Lakowicz, J.R. (Eds.), 2006. Who’s Who in Fluorescence 2006. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Hockings, E., 2016. A Critical Examination of Policy-Developments in Information Governance and the Biosciences, in: Mittelstadt, B.D., Floridi, L. (Eds.), The Ethics of Biomedical Big Data, Law, Governance and Technology Series. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 95–115.

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

Carpineti, A., 2016. Gravitational Waves Observed For A Second Time [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/gravitational-waves-observed-for-a-second-time/ (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, 2000. Mass Transit: Review of the South Boston Piers Transitway Finance Plan (No. GAO-01-174R). 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

Roettger, M.E., 2008. Three essays on social inequality and the U.S. criminal justice system (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Sisario, B., 2017. Halsey Reaches the Top Of the Billboard Chart. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nicklin, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bongaarts and Sinding, 2011; Nicklin, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Bongaarts and Sinding, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2008)

About the journal

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