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 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

Dalton R. Los Alamos “loses” key weapons data. Nature. 2000;405(6788):725.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koren I, Feingold G. Adaptive behavior of marine cellular clouds. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2507.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fang Y, Seong NH, Dlott DD. Measurement of the distribution of site enhancements in surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Science. 2008;321(5887):388-392.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Miller PJ, Biassoni N, Samuels A, Tyack PL. Whale songs lengthen in response to sonar. Nature. 2000;405(6789):903.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Banks RE, Sharp JM, Doss SD, Vanderford DA. Exotic Small Mammal Care and Husbandry. Ames, Iowa, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Teichler U. The Changing Academic Profession: Major Findings of a Comparative Survey. Vol 1. (Arimoto A, Cummings WK, eds.). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Marsaudon S, Bernard C, Dietzel D, et al. Carbon Nanotubes as SPM Tips: Mechanical Properties of Nanotube Tips and Imaging. In: Bhushan B, Fuchs H, Tomitori M, eds. Applied Scanning Probe Methods VIII: Scanning Probe Microscopy Techniques. Nano Science and Technolgy. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008:137-181.

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

Hale T. Dying Snake-Bitten Scientist Records His Last Day Of Life. IFLScience. Published October 31, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dying-hours-snake-biten-scientist-recorded-diary/

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. Intercity Passenger Rail: Recording Clearer Reasons for Awards Decisions Would Improve Otherwise Good Grantmaking Practices. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dovale MJ. Postwar Japan’s Hybrid Modernity of in-Betweenness: Historical, Literary, and Social Perspectives. 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

Poniewozik J. When Leer Was King. New York Times. September 7, 2017:C1.

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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