How to format your references using the Developmental Review citation style

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

Boothroyd, A. I. (2006). Astronomy. Heavy elements in stars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5806), 1690–1691.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoffmann, A. A., & Sgrò, C. M. (2011). Climate change and evolutionary adaptation. Nature, 470(7335), 479–485.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dhakal, K., Black, B., & Mohanty, S. (2014). Introduction of impermeable actin-staining molecules to mammalian cells by optoporation. Scientific Reports, 4, 6553.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Ram, R. J., Verberkmoes, N. C., Thelen, M. P., Tyson, G. W., Baker, B. J., Blake, R. C., 2nd, Shah, M., Hettich, R. L., & Banfield, J. F. (2005). Community proteomics of a natural microbial biofilm. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5730), 1915–1920.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Corten, R. (2014). Computational Approaches to Studying the Co-evolution of Networks and Behavior in Social Dilemmas. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Maltoni, D. (2009). Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition (D. Maio, A. K. Jain, & S. Prabhakar, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Fujishiro, M. (2009). Gastrointestinal Epithelial Neoplasms: Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (Methodology). In M. A. Hayat (Ed.), Gastrointestinal Carcinoma (pp. 29–36). Springer Netherlands.

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 Review.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017, May 23). Time Travel: A Conversation Between A Scientist And A Literature Professor. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/time-travel-a-conversation-between-a-scientist-and-a-literature-professor/

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. (2004). Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations: Federal Agencies Are Taking Steps to Assist States and Local Agencies in Coordinating Transportation Services (GAO-04-420R). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mcfarlane, N. (2010). Information power efficiency tradeoffs in mixed signal CMOS circuits [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Crow, K. (2001, May 20). A Seminary’s Proud Tower Brings Unease to Neighbors. New York Times, 145.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boothroyd, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Boothroyd, 2006; Hoffmann & Sgrò, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hoffmann & Sgrò, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Ram et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Developmental Review
Abbreviation	Dev. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0273-2297
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Psychiatry and Mental health Developmental and Educational Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Education