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

Wu, S., 2013. State tomography via weak measurements. Sci. Rep. 3, 1193.

A journal article with 2 authors

Camasso, N.M., Sanford, M.S., 2015. Design, synthesis, and carbon-heteroatom coupling reactions of organometallic nickel(IV) complexes. Science 347, 1218–1220.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kessler, D., Gase, K., Baldwin, I.T., 2008. Field experiments with transformed plants reveal the sense of floral scents. Science 321, 1200–1202.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yu, W., Xu, L., Graham, N., Qu, J., 2014. Pre-treatment for ultrafiltration: effect of pre-chlorination on membrane fouling. Sci. Rep. 4, 6513.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Helsel, D.R., 2011. Statistics for Censored Environmental Data Using Minitab® and R. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Lee, D.H., Wang, X. (Eds.), 2011. Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2011: 17th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Seoul, South Korea, December 4-8, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Alkemade, T., Jeuring, J., 2016. Type Class Instances for Type-Level Lambdas in Haskell, in: Serrano, M., Hage, J. (Eds.), Trends in Functional Programming: 16th International Symposium, TFP 2015, Sophia Antipolis, France, June 3-5, 2015. Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 60–84.

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., 2015. New Ebola Test can Rapidly Diagnose the Disease in Minutes [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-ebola-test-can-rapidly-diagnose-disease-minutes/ (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, 1998. Airport Improvement Program: FAA Complying With Requirement for Local Involvement in Noise Mitigation Projects (No. RCED-99-41). 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

Bissell, G.H., 2011. Working in the transference as a multicultural intervention (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Loomis, G., 2012. Baroque Opera at the Ambronay Festival. New York Times 0.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wu, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Camasso and Sanford, 2015; Wu, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Camasso and Sanford, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Yu 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

Research and Writing Guides