How to format your references using the International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of 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

Turnpenny, L., 2009. Journal club. A stem-cell researcher considers an accusation of dullness. Nature 459, 143.

A journal article with 2 authors

García-Sastre, A., Biron, C.A., 2006. Type 1 interferons and the virus-host relationship: a lesson in détente. Science 312, 879–882.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jan, C.H., Williams, C.C., Weissman, J.S., 2014. Principles of ER cotranslational translocation revealed by proximity-specific ribosome profiling. Science 346, 1257521.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, S.J., Matsuura, Y., Liu, S.M., Stewart, M., 2005. Structural basis for nuclear import complex dissociation by RanGTP. Nature 435, 693–696.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nazarov, V.E., Radostin, A.V., 2014. Nonlinear Acoustic Waves in Micro-inhomogeneous Solids. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Zhang, J. (Ed.), 2008. PEM Fuel Cell Electrocatalysts and Catalyst Layers: Fundamentals and Applications. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Pastuszek-Lipińska, B., 2008. Musicians Outperform Nonmusicians in Speech Imitation, in: Kronland-Martinet, R., Ystad, S., Jensen, K. (Eds.), Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Sense of Sounds: 4th International Symposium, CMMR 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 27-31, 2007. Revised Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 56–73.

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 International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. Something Absolutely Gigantic Appears To Be Whistling In The Caribbean Sea [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/something-absolutely-gigantic-appears-whistling-caribbean-sea/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1993. Self-Sufficiency: Opportunities and Disincentives on the Road to Economic Independence (No. HRD-93-23). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pena, H., 2017. Long-Term Effects of Post-Fire Forest Structure on Understory Vegetation in Larch Forests of the Siberian Arctic (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Davidson, A., 2013. Boom, Bust or What? New York Times MM28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Turnpenny, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (García-Sastre and Biron, 2006; Turnpenny, 2009).

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

Two authors: (García-Sastre and Biron, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Int. J. Dev. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	0736-5748
Scope	Developmental Biology Developmental Neuroscience