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 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

Braun DC. Comment on “Detection of emerging sunspot regions in the solar interior.” Science. 2012 Apr;336(6079):296; author reply 296.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gilbert DT, Wilson TD. Prospection: experiencing the future. Science. 2007 Sep;317(5843):1351–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Foley SF, Buhre S, Jacob DE. Evolution of the Archaean crust by delamination and shallow subduction. Nature. 2003 Jan;421(6920):249–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tay JW, Lai P, Suzuki Y, Wang LV. Ultrasonically encoded wavefront shaping for focusing into random media. Sci Rep. 2014 Jan;4:3918.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Angueira P, Romo JA. Microwave Line of Sight Link Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Chaudhuri S, Farzan A, editors. Computer Aided Verification: 28th International Conference, CAV 2016, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 17-23, 2016, Proceedings, Part I. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Van Dijck G, Van Hulle MM. Speeding Up the Wrapper Feature Subset Selection in Regression by Mutual Information Relevance and Redundancy Analysis. In: Kollias SD, Stafylopatis A, Duch W, Oja E, editors. Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2006: 16th International Conference, Athens, Greece, September 10-14, 2006. Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006; pp 31–40.

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

Evans K. Here’s What Actually Happens When You Have An Abortion [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Jan [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/heres-what-actually-happens-when-you-have-an-abortion/

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. Motor Vehicle Safety: Information on Accidental Fires in Manufacturing Air Bag Propellant. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Norris EL. A depth psychological view of the Christian myth: C. G. Jung, Elizabeth Boyden Howes, and the Guild for Psychological Studies. 2008

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

Dorman JL. Tessa Kiros, Food Writer, on France’s Sway. New York Times. 2017 Mar;TR2.

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