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

Goldston D. 2007. Making room for dissent. Nature 448:524.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lubenov EV, Siapas AG. 2009. Hippocampal theta oscillations are travelling waves. Nature 459:534–539.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu B, Ooi TL, He ZJ. 2004. Perceiving distance accurately by a directional process of integrating ground information. Nature 428:73–77.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Brecht M, Schneider M, Sakmann B, Margrie TW. 2004. Whisker movements evoked by stimulation of single pyramidal cells in rat motor cortex. Nature 427:704–710.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Milne D. 2012. The Psychology of Retirement. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

King A, editor. 2008. Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation: 17th International Symposium, LOPSTR 2007, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, August 23-24, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. X, 222 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Briker Y, Ring Z, Yang H. 2006. Integrated Methodology for Characterization of Petroleum Samples and Its Application for Refinery Product Quality Modeling. In: Hsu CS, Robinson PR, editors. Practical Advances in Petroleum Processing, New York, NY: Springer, p 117–148.

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 D. 2016. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-can-a-17millionyearold-hominid-fossil-teach-us-about-cancer/. 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. 1984.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Manzano D. 2010.

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. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Goldston, 2007; Lubenov and Siapas, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Lubenov and Siapas, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Brecht 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

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