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

Wood J. Obituary: Alastair Cameron (1925-2005). Nature. 2005 Dec;438(7069):752.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pagliarini RA, Xu T. A genetic screen in Drosophila for metastatic behavior. Science. 2003 Nov;302(5648):1227–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zabow G, Dodd SJ, Koretsky AP. Shape-changing magnetic assemblies as high-sensitivity NMR-readable nanoprobes. Nature. 2015 Apr;520(7545):73–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Furlong EE, Andersen EC, Null B, White KP, Scott MP. Patterns of gene expression during Drosophila mesoderm development. Science. 2001 Aug;293(5535):1629–33.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aubrey SB. The Profitable Hobby Farm. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Radulov G. Smart and Flexible Digital-to-Analog Converters. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Irving AJ, McDonald NA, Harkany T. CB1 Cannabinoid Receptors: Molecular Biology, Second Messenger Coupling and Polarized Trafficking in Neurons. In: Köfalvi A, editor. Cannabinoids and the Brain. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2008; pp 59–73.

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

Fang J. Catsharks Glow Brighter The Deeper They Go [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 May [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/catsharks-glow-brighter-deeper-they-go/

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. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2008 Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zhang Y. A Grant Proposal for Mindfulness-Based Self-Care Training for Child Welfare Workers. 2017

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

Kenigsberg B. Alina. New York Times. 2017 Sep;C11.

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