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

Bocquet-Appel, J.-P., 2011. When the world’s population took off: the springboard of the Neolithic Demographic Transition. Science 333, 560–561.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hawkins, P.T., Stephens, L.R., 2007. PI3Kgamma is a key regulator of inflammatory responses and cardiovascular homeostasis. Science 318, 64–66.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bosch, R., van de Pol, M., Philp, J., 2015. Policy: Define biomass sustainability. Nature 523, 526–527.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ding, X., Zhao, L., Chu, H., Tong, N., Ni, C., Hu, Z., Zhang, Z., Wang, M., 2014. Assessing the effectiveness of problem-based learning of preventive medicine education in China. Sci. Rep. 4, 5126.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huang, F., Klette, R., Scheibe, K., 2008. Panoramic Imaging. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Valavanis, K.P., Beard, R., Oh, P., Ollero, A., Piegl, L.A., Shim, H. (Eds.), 2010. Selected papers from the 2nd International Symposium on UAVs, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A. June 8–10, 2009. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Fabrègue, D., Landron, C., Béal, C., Kleber, X., Maire, E., Bouzekri, M., 2011. Understanding the mechanical behaviour of a high manganese TWIP steel by the means of in situ 3D X ray tomography, in: Proulx, T. (Ed.), Optical Measurements, Modeling, and Metrology, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 27–32.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Your Testicles Contain More Diverse Proteins Than Any Other Human Organ [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1977. Reevaluation Needed of Educational Assistance for Institutionalized Neglected or Delinquent Children (No. HRD-78-11). 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

Huang, J., 2013. Multispectral Imaging of Skin Oxygenation (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Koblin, J., 2016. A Media Odd Couple Determined to Jell. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bocquet-Appel, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Bocquet-Appel, 2011; Hawkins and Stephens, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Hawkins and Stephens, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Ding et al., 2014)

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