How to format your references using the Developmental Cell citation style

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

Sargis, E.J. (2002). Paleontology. Primate origins nailed. Science 298, 1564–1565.

A journal article with 2 authors

Velicer, G.J., and Yu, Y.-T.N. (2003). Evolution of novel cooperative swarming in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Nature 425, 75–78.

A journal article with 3 authors

Piovia-Scott, J., Spiller, D.A., and Schoener, T.W. (2011). Effects of experimental seaweed deposition on lizard and ant predation in an island food web. Science 331, 461–463.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Smalley, R., Jr, Ellis, M.A., Paul, J., and Van Arsdale, R.B. (2005). Space geodetic evidence for rapid strain rates in the New Madrid seismic zone of central USA. Nature 435, 1088–1090.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kyan, M., Muneesawang, P., Jarrah, K., and Guan, L. (2014). Unsupervised Learning (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Harik, R., Rivest, L., Bernard, A., Eynard, B., and Bouras, A. eds. (2016). Product Lifecycle Management for Digital Transformation of Industries: 13th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2016, Columbia, SC, USA, July 11-13, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (Springer International Publishing).

A chapter in an edited book

Lavoie, C., and Abdulnour, G. (2014). How to Recognize a Creative SME? In Advances in Production Management Systems. Innovative and Knowledge-Based Production Management in a Global-Local World: IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2014, Ajaccio, France, September 20-24, 2014, Proceedings, Part I IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology., B. Grabot, B. Vallespir, S. Gomes, A. Bouras, and D. Kiritsis, eds. (Springer), pp. 27–33.

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 Cell.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016). Asteroid Mining Company Reveals New Mission To Land On An Asteroid By 2020. IFLScience.

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 (1999). Critical Infrastructure Protection: Comprehensive Strategy Can Draw on Year 2000 Experiences (U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stephenson, J.H. (2010). Ethics and morality in software development: A developer’s perspective.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017). Film Series. New York Times, C21.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Developmental Cell
Abbreviation	Dev. Cell
ISSN (print)	1534-5807
ISSN (online)	1878-1551
Scope	Developmental Biology