How to format your references using the Cerebral Cortex citation style

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

Hasinger G. 2000. Peeking into the obscured universe. Nature. 404:443, 445–446.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bays PM, Husain M. 2008. Dynamic shifts of limited working memory resources in human vision. Science. 321:851–854.

A journal article with 3 authors

Harris HH, Pickering IJ, George GN. 2003. The chemical form of mercury in fish. Science. 301:1203.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Müller LSM, Cosentino RO, Förstner KU, Guizetti J, Wedel C, Kaplan N, Janzen CJ, Arampatzi P, Vogel J, Steinbiss S, Otto TD, Saliba A-E, Sebra RP, Siegel TN. 2018. Genome organization and DNA accessibility control antigenic variation in trypanosomes. Nature. 563:121–125.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zecchina A, Califano S. 2017. The Development of Catalysis. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Azócar Fernández PI. 2014. Paradigms in Cartography: An Epistemological Review of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dasiopoulou S, Saathoff C, Mylonas P, Avrithis Y, Kompatsiaris Y, Staab S, Strinztis MG. 2008. Introducing Context and Reasoning in Visual Content Analysis: An Ontology-Based Framework. In: Kompatsiaris Y,, Hobson P, editors. Semantic Multimedia and Ontologies: Theory and Applications. London: Springer. p. 99–122.

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 Cerebral Cortex.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. This Alloy Can Withstand 10 Million Transformations [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/bendy-alloy-can-boogie-all-decade-long/

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. 1991. Federal Research: Status of DOE’s Superconducting Super Collider ( No. RCED-91-116). Washington, DC: 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

Andrews M. 2014. Health literacy competencies for health professionals: A Delphi study (Doctoral dissertation).

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

This story was reported by C.J. Chivers, Arvedlund EE, Kishkovsky S, Chivers W by M. 2004. Editor’s Death Raises Questions About Change in Russia. New York Times. 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hasinger 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hasinger 2000; Bays and Husain 2008).

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

Two authors: (Bays and Husain 2008)
Three or more authors: (Müller et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cerebral Cortex
Abbreviation	Cereb. Cortex
ISSN (print)	1047-3211
ISSN (online)	1460-2199
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience