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

Bayer M. Botany. Patterning cues from the altruistic sibling. Science. 2014 Apr;344(6180):158–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ohlstein B, Spradling A. Multipotent Drosophila intestinal stem cells specify daughter cell fates by differential notch signaling. Science. 2007 Feb;315(5814):988–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

Qin Y, Wang X, Wang ZL. Microfibre-nanowire hybrid structure for energy scavenging. Nature. 2008 Feb;451(7180):809–13.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Han J-H, Kushner SA, Yiu AP, Cole CJ, Matynia A, Brown RA, et al. Neuronal competition and selection during memory formation. Science. 2007 Apr;316(5823):457–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wood T, Anderson M, Analytics F. The Commercial Real Estate Tsunami. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Berkowitz L, McCarthy C, editors. Innovation with Information Technologies in Healthcare. London: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Lai Y, Ng J, Chan CT. Creating Illusion Effects Using Transformation Optics. In: Werner DH, Kwon D-H, editors. Transformation Electromagnetics and Metamaterials: Fundamental Principles and Applications. London: Springer; 2014; pp 139–65.

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

Luntz S. This Sri Lankan Newspaper REPELS Mosquitoes [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Jun [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sri-lankan-newspaper-repels-mosquitoes/

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. Digests of Unpublished Decisions of the Comptroller General, Vol. III, No. 3. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Magnus JV. Female Police Officers: The Influence of a Masculine Culture. 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

Saslow L. Environmental Lawyer to Head Planning Board. New York Times. 2006 Dec;LI2.

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

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