How to format your references using the Cognitive Neurodynamics citation style

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

Bucksbaum PH (2006) Chemistry. The first femtosecond in the life of a chemical reaction. Science 312:373–374

A journal article with 2 authors

Gudmundsson A, Mohajeri N (2013) Entropy and order in urban street networks. Sci Rep 3:3324

A journal article with 3 authors

Jefferis GSXE, Komiyama T, Luo L (2004) Neuroscience. Calcium and CREST for healthy dendrites. Science 303:179–181

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ivan M, Kondo K, Yang H, et al (2001) HIFalpha targeted for VHL-mediated destruction by proline hydroxylation: implications for O2 sensing. Science 292:464–468

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liu S, Liu Y (2011) Modeling and Simulation for Microelectronic Packaging Assembly. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Richards JA (ed) (2008) Radio Wave Propagation: An Introduction for the Non-Specialist. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Richter S (2010) Comments on Chapter 2 and 3. In: Keereman F, Szekely I (eds) Five Years of an Enlarged EU: A Positive Sum Game. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 55–60

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 Cognitive Neurodynamics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) HIV Could Be Evolving Into A Less Deadly Form. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hiv-could-be-evolving-less-deadly-form/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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: Delays in and Status of EPA’s Efforts to Issue a TSCA Regulation. 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

Oliver CN (2008) The relationship between length of kindergarten day and student literacy and math achievement. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Kelly K (2017) Trump Has Stocks Up. Some Funds Are Leery. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bucksbaum 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Bucksbaum 2006; Gudmundsson and Mohajeri 2013).

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

Two authors: (Gudmundsson and Mohajeri 2013)
Three or more authors: (Ivan et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cognitive Neurodynamics
Abbreviation	Cogn. Neurodyn.
ISSN (print)	1871-4080
ISSN (online)	1871-4099
Scope	Cognitive Neuroscience