How to format your references using the Developmental Neuroscience citation style

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

Dickson D. UK ethicists back use of stem cells. Nature. 2000 Apr;404(6779):697.

A journal article with 2 authors

Voss D, Coontz R. Cosmic web. Warp and woof. Introduction to special issue. Science. 2008 Jan;319(5859):46.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shekhawat G, Tark S-H, Dravid VP. MOSFET-Embedded microcantilevers for measuring deflection in biomolecular sensors. Science. 2006 Mar;311(5767):1592–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zillohu AU, Abdelaziz R, Homaeigohar S, Krasnov I, Müller M, Strunskus T, et al. Biomimetic transferable surface for a real time control over wettability and photoerasable writing with water drop lens. Sci Rep. 2014 Dec;4:7407.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith CL. Basic Process Measurements. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Capcarrère MS, Freitas AA, Bentley PJ, Johnson CG, Timmis J, editors. Advances in Artificial Life: 8th European Conference, ECAL 2005, Canterbury, UK, September 5-9, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Hayashi ECS, Baranauskas MCC. Designing for Affectibility: Principles and Guidelines. In: Stephanidis C, editor. HCI International 2015 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts: International Conference, HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015. Proceedings, Part I. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015; pp 25–31.

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 Neuroscience.

Blog post

Andrew E. Interstellar Gives a Spectacular View of Hard Science [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Nov [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/interstellar-gives-spectacular-view-hard-science/

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. FAA Information Technology: Complete Cost Data Not Provided to OMB. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mitra A. Sigma Factor N: A Novel Regulator of Acid Resistance and Locus of Enterocyte Effacement in Escherichia coli O157:H7. 2014

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

Gustines GG. Warming Up to a Cold Run. New York Times. 2011 Feb;C33.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Dev. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	0378-5866
ISSN (online)	1421-9859
Scope	Developmental Neuroscience Neurology