How to format your references using the Developmental Neurobiology citation style

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

Müller A. 2003. Chemistry. The beauty of symmetry. Science 300:749–750.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sercombe TB, Schaffer GB. 2003. Rapid manufacturing of aluminum components. Science 301:1225–1227.

A journal article with 3 authors

Doncaster CP, Pound GE, Cox SJ. 2000. The ecological cost of sex. Nature 404:281–285.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

You L, Cox RS 3rd, Weiss R, Arnold FH. 2004. Programmed population control by cell-cell communication and regulated killing. Nature 428:868–871.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kerzner H. 2017. Project Management Case Studies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lukszo Z, Deconinck G, Weijnen MPC, editors. 2010. Securing Electricity Supply in the Cyber Age: Exploring the Risks of Information and Communication Technology in Tomorrow’s Electricity Infrastructure. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. VI, 187 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Feil B, Abonyi J. 2007. Geodesic Distance Based Fuzzy Clustering. In: Saad A, Dahal K, Sarfraz M, Roy R, editors. Soft Computing in Industrial Applications: Recent Trends, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, p 50–59.

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 Neurobiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/europa-mission-instument-breakdown/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shamsai M. 2006.

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

Kelly C. 2008. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Müller, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Müller, 2003; Sercombe and Schaffer, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Sercombe and Schaffer, 2003)
Three or more authors: (You et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Developmental Neurobiology
Abbreviation	Dev. Neurobiol.
ISSN (print)	1932-8451
ISSN (online)	1932-846X
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Developmental Neuroscience