How to format your references using the Developmental and Comparative Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Developmental and Comparative Immunology. 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

Wright, J., 2013. Epigenetics: reversible tags. Nature 498, S10-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Drake, M.J., Jakosky, B.M., 2002. Narrow horizons in astrobiology. Nature 415, 733–734.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grbic, A., Jiang, L., Merlin, R., 2008. Near-field plates: subdiffraction focusing with patterned surfaces. Science 320, 511–513.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hierro, A., Sun, J., Rusnak, A.S., Kim, J., Prag, G., Emr, S.D., Hurley, J.H., 2004. Structure of the ESCRT-II endosomal trafficking complex. Nature 431, 221–225.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jaitly, R., 2016. Practical Operational Due Diligence on Hedge Funds. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Shamir, A., Korat, O. (Eds.), 2013. Technology as a Support for Literacy Achievements for Children at Risk, Literacy Studies, Perspectives from Cognitive Neurosciences, Linguistics, Psychology and Education. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

de Meatza, I., Miguel, O., Cendoya, I., Kim, G.-T., Löffler, N., Laszczynski, N., Passerini, S., Schweizer, P.M., Castiglione, F., Mele, A., Appetecchi, G.B., Moreno, M., Brandon, M., Kennedy, T., Mullane, E., Ryan, K.M., Cantero, I., Olive, M., 2015. GREENLION Project: Advanced Manufacturing Processes for Low Cost Greener Li-Ion Batteries, in: Briec, E., Müller, B. (Eds.), Electric Vehicle Batteries: Moving from Research towards Innovation: Reports of the PPP European Green Vehicles Initiative, Lecture Notes in Mobility. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 45–60.

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 and Comparative Immunology.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. Healthy Mouse Pups Born From Lab Grown Eggs In World First [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/healthy-mouse-pups-born-from-lab-grown-eggs-in-world-first/ (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, 1992. Biotechnology Regulation (No. RCED-92-217R). 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

Hatcher, R., 2012. Guide to improvisation for Mozart’s serenade in Bb Major, K. 361, the “Gran Partita” (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Gustines, G.G., 2011. Leaping Off the Pages in the Himalayas. New York Times C27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wright, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Drake and Jakosky, 2002; Wright, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Drake and Jakosky, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Hierro et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Developmental and Comparative Immunology
Abbreviation	Dev. Comp. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	0145-305X
Scope	Developmental Biology Immunology