How to format your references using the Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures. 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

Eagleman, D. M. (2004). Neuroscience. The where and when of intention. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5661), 1144–1146.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bininda-Emonds, O. R. P., & Purvis, A. (2012). Comment on “Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg extinction on mammal diversification.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6090), 34; author reply 34.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kasting, J. F., Catling, D. C., & Zahnle, K. (2012). Atmospheric oxygenation and volcanism. Nature, 487(7408), E1; discussion E2.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Suzuki, Y., Niu, G., Hughes, G. L., & Rasgon, J. L. (2014). A viral over-expression system for the major malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Scientific Reports, 4, 5127.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beagle, J. R. (2013). Surgical Essentials of Immediate Implant Dentistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Barthe, G., Grégoire, B., Huisman, M., & Lanet, J.-L. (Eds.). (2006). Construction and Analysis of Safe, Secure, and Interoperable Smart Devices: Second International Workshop, CASSIS 2005, Nice, France, March 8-11, 2005, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 3956). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Pierson, J.-M. (2011). Energy: A New Criteria for Performances in Large Scale Distributed Systems. In K. A. Hummel, H. Hlavacs, & W. Gansterer (Eds.), Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems. Milestones and Future Challenges: IFIP WG 6.3/7.3 International Workshop, PERFORM 2010, in Honor of Günter Haring on the Occasion of His Emeritus Celebration, Vienna, Austria, October 14-16, 2010, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 38–48). Springer.

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 Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 22). An Animal That Could Rewrite The Family Tree: One Of The Top New Species Of 2015. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/animal-could-rewrite-family-tree-one-top-new-species-2015/

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. (2013). Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: Standards Needed to Improve Identification of Racial and Ethnic Overrepresentation in Special Education (GAO-13-137). 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

Kinney, C. E. (2009). Realtime controller tuning for periodic disturbance rejection with application to active noise control [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego.

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

Koblin, J. (2017, May 10). Hulu Hires AMC Veteran as First Chief Content Officer. New York Times, B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eagleman, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Bininda-Emonds & Purvis, 2012; Eagleman, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Bininda-Emonds & Purvis, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Suzuki et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
Abbreviation	Biol. Inspired Cogn. Arch.
ISSN (print)	2212-683X
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Neuroscience Experimental and Cognitive Psychology