How to format your references using the Current Developmental Disorders Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Developmental Disorders Reports. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Sachs JD. Seeking a global solution. Nature. 2004;430:725–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Merad M, Salmon H. Cancer: A dendritic-cell brake on antitumour immunity. Nature. 2015;523:294–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Motose H, Sugiyama M, Fukuda H. A proteoglycan mediates inductive interaction during plant vascular development. Nature. 2004;429:873–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Quinn KP, Sridharan GV, Hayden RS, Kaplan DL, Lee K, Georgakoudi I. Quantitative metabolic imaging using endogenous fluorescence to detect stem cell differentiation. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3432.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bell S. Lean Enterprise Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

1. Nakatani K, Tor Y, editors. Modified Nucleic Acids. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kim JS, Werth VP. Malar Erythema. In: Matucci-Cerinic M, Furst D, Fiorentino D, editors. Skin Manifestations in Rheumatic Disease. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 37–45.

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 Current Developmental Disorders Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew D. Sloths Aren’t Lazy – Their Slowness Is A Survival Skill. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Strong Leadership and Partnerships Needed to Mitigate Risk of Major Disruptions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Aug. Report No.: T-AIMD-98-262.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Wilson MB. Constructions of childhood found in award -winning children’s literature [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2009.

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

1. Lee L. Bathed in the Glow of Splashing Water. New York Times. 2013 Jul 25;D3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Developmental Disorders Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Dev. Disord. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2196-2987
Scope