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

Marder, T.B., 2006. Chemistry. Boron goes on the attack. Science 314, 69–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

Frenking, G., Holzmann, N., 2012. Chemistry. A boron-boron triple bond. Science 336, 1394–1395.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yao, M.-C., Fuller, P., Xi, X., 2003. Programmed DNA deletion as an RNA-guided system of genome defense. Science 300, 1581–1584.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jacobs, K., Zaziski, D., Scher, E.C., Herhold, A.B., Paul Alivisatos, A., 2001. Activation volumes for solid-solid transformations in nanocrystals. Science 293, 1803–1806.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jamison, D.C., 2005. Perl Programming for Biologists. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ropo, M., Westerholm, J., Dongarra, J. (Eds.), 2009. Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface: 16th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, Espoo, Finland, September 7-10, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Humar, A., Khwaja, K.O., Sutherland, D.E.R., 2006. Pancreas Transplantation, in: Matas, A.J., Payne, W.D. (Eds.), Atlas of Organ Transplantation. Springer, London, pp. 133–195.

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

Hale, T., 2016. The World’s Oldest Panda In Captivity Has Died [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-worlds-oldest-panda-in-captivity-has-died/ (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, 1992. Department of Education Grant Award (No. HRD-93-8R). 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

Richardson, S., 2014. Individual sense of efficacy, collective teacher efficacy and student achievement in high achieving and low achieving urban public schools (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Buckley, C., 2017. Tycoon’s Claims Reverberate in China Despite Censorship and Thin Evidence. New York Times A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marder, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Frenking and Holzmann, 2012; Marder, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Frenking and Holzmann, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Jacobs et al., 2001)

About the journal

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