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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Chien, K.R., 2008. Regenerative medicine and human models of human disease. Nature 453, 302–305.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barbraud, C., Weimerskirch, H., 2001. Emperor penguins and climate change. Nature 411, 183–186.

A journal article with 3 authors

Copley, A., Avouac, J.-P., Wernicke, B.P., 2011. Evidence for mechanical coupling and strong Indian lower crust beneath southern Tibet. Nature 472, 79–81.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lawler, M.J., Fujita, K., Lee, J., Schmidt, A.R., Kohsaka, Y., Kim, C.K., Eisaki, H., Uchida, S., Davis, J.C., Sethna, J.P., Kim, E.-A., 2010. Intra-unit-cell electronic nematicity of the high-T(c) copper-oxide pseudogap states. Nature 466, 347–351.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rebonato, R., 2004. Volatility and Correlation. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Greco, S., Ehrgott, M., Figueira, J.R. (Eds.), 2016. Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: State of the Art Surveys, 2nd ed. 2016. ed, International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, X., Gao, S., 2012. Effects of Sea Surface Temperature, in: Gao, S. (Ed.), Precipitation Modeling and Quantitative Analysis. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 111–124.

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

Davis, J., 2016. Rising Atmospheric CO2 Has Lead To A Global “Greening” Effect [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/rising-atmospheric-co2-has-lead-greening-effect/ (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, 1978. Administration for Children, Youth, and Families: Need To Better Use Its Research Results and Clarify Its Role (No. HRD-77-76). 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

Long, J.J., 2012. Comparison of health-promoting lifestyles in adult patients with and without primary care provider continuity (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Wagner, J., 2016. Bruce’s Third Homer in Five Games Helps Protect Wild-Card Lead. New York Times B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chien, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Barbraud and Weimerskirch, 2001; Chien, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Barbraud and Weimerskirch, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Lawler et al., 2010)

About the journal

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