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 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

Schimel, D.S., 2010. Climate. Drylands in the Earth system. Science 327, 418–419.

A journal article with 2 authors

Curry, R., Mauritzen, C., 2005. Dilution of the northern North Atlantic Ocean in recent decades. Science 308, 1772–1774.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mendoza, M., Herrmann, H.J., Succi, S., 2013. Hydrodynamic model for conductivity in graphene. Sci. Rep. 3, 1052.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rappé, M.S., Connon, S.A., Vergin, K.L., Giovannoni, S.J., 2002. Cultivation of the ubiquitous SAR11 marine bacterioplankton clade. Nature 418, 630–633.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chan, N.H., Wong, H.Y., 2006. Simulation Techniques in Financial Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Dong, J.S., Zhu, H. (Eds.), 2010. Formal Methods and Software Engineering: 12th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2010, Shanghai, China, November 17-19, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Zerbe, I., Gajovic-Eichelmann, N., 2010. Lipidic Microbubble Targeting of Surface Proteins Using an in Vitro System, in: Paradossi, G., Pellegretti, P., Trucco, A. (Eds.), Ultrasound Contrast Agents: Targeting and Processing Methods for Theranostics. Springer, Milano, pp. 41–52.

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, D., 2015. Watch How Easily A Rat Can Wriggle Up Your Toilet [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, 1997. Transportation Infrastructure: Highway Pavement Design Guide Is Outdated (No. RCED-98-9). 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

Demenkoff, J.H., 2014. Evolution and emergence of the masculinities: Epiphanies and epiphenomena of the male athlete and dancer (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Burghardt, L.F., 2006. A Symbol of Carefree, Innocent Fun? Not in Oyster Bay. New York Times 14LI10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schimel, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Curry and Mauritzen, 2005; Schimel, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Curry and Mauritzen, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Rappé et al., 2002)

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