How to format your references using the Developmental Dynamics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Developmental Dynamics. 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

Wentrup C. Chemistry. Fleeting molecules extend their stay. Science. 2001;292(5523):1846-1847.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boettiger AN, Levine M. Synchronous and stochastic patterns of gene activation in the Drosophila embryo. Science. 2009;325(5939):471-473.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eggenschwiler JT, Espinoza E, Anderson KV. Rab23 is an essential negative regulator of the mouse Sonic hedgehog signalling pathway. Nature. 2001;412(6843):194-198.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Matthiesen C, Stanley MJ, Hugues M, Clarke E, Atatüre M. Full counting statistics of quantum dot resonance fluorescence. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4911.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Trout J, Rivkin S. Differentiate or Die. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Montagnini F. Tropical Forest Ecology: The Basis for Conservation and Management. (Jordan CF, ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Sousedík* B, Mandel† J. On Adaptive-Multilevel BDDC. In: Huang Y, Kornhuber R, Widlund O, Xu J, eds. Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and Engineering XIX. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011:39-50.

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 Dynamics.

Blog post

Andrew E. The Seashell-Inspired Material Inspiring A New Wave Of Safety Gear In Sport. IFLScience. Published May 22, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/seashell-inspired-material-inspiring-new-wave-safety-gear-sport/

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. District of Columbia Public Schools: Availability of Funds and the Cost of FY 1997 Roof Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McDougal S. Military Town: Part One. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Arvedlund EE, SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY; C.J. Chivers contributed reporting for this article. After a Spate of Bombings, Moscow’s Full of Foreboding. New York Times. September 2, 2004:A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Developmental Dynamics
ISSN (print)	1058-8388
ISSN (online)	1097-0177
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