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 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

Gunawardena, J. (2010). Systems biology. Biological systems theory. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5978), 581–582.

A journal article with 2 authors

Milinski, M., & Rockenbach, B. (2007). Economics. Spying on others evolves. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5837), 464–465.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mayle, F. E., Burbridge, R., & Killeen, T. J. (2000). Millennial-scale dynamics of southern Amazonian rain forests. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5500), 2291–2294.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Depuydt, M., Leonard, S. E., Vertommen, D., Denoncin, K., Morsomme, P., Wahni, K., Messens, J., Carroll, K. S., & Collet, J.-F. (2009). A periplasmic reducing system protects single cysteine residues from oxidation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5956), 1109–1111.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grigg, N. S. (2010). Infrastructure Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Freitas, V. P. de de, & Delgado, J. M. P. Q. (Eds.). (2013). Durability of Building Materials and Components (Vol. 3). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rowlett, R. S. (2014). Structure and Catalytic Mechanism of β-Carbonic Anhydrases. In S. C. Frost & R. McKenna (Eds.), Carbonic Anhydrase: Mechanism, Regulation, Links to Disease, and Industrial Applications (pp. 53–76). 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, E. (2016, May 2). Great Barrier Reef Bleaching Would Be Almost Impossible Without Climate Change. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/great-barrier-reef-bleaching-would-be-almost-impossible-without-climate-change/

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. (2009). Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: Acquisition Has Increased Costs, Reduced Capabilities, and Delayed Schedules (GAO-09-596T). 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

McClimon, M. (2016). A transformational approach to jazz harmony [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana University.

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

Feeney, K. (2009, February 1). Chocolate, the Tuscan Way. New York Times, NJ10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gunawardena, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Gunawardena, 2010; Milinski & Rockenbach, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Milinski & Rockenbach, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Depuydt et al., 2009)

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