How to format your references using the Cognitive Neuropsychology citation style

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

DePinho, R. A. (2000). The age of cancer. Nature, 408(6809), 248–254.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sawa, A., & Snyder, S. H. (2005). Genetics. Two genes link two distinct psychoses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5751), 1128–1129.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oganov, A. R., Brodholt, J. P., & Price, G. D. (2001). The elastic constants of MgSiO3 perovskite at pressures and temperatures of the Earth’s mantle. Nature, 411(6840), 934–937.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Gill, R. A., Polley, H. W., Johnson, H. B., Anderson, L. J., Maherali, H., & Jackson, R. B. (2002). Nonlinear grassland responses to past and future atmospheric CO(2). Nature, 417(6886), 279–282.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Veasey, D. A., McCormick, L. C., Hilyer, B. M., Oldfield, K. W., Hansen, S., & Krayer, T. H. (2005). Confined Space Entry and Emergency Response. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bezdek, K., Deza, A., & Ye, Y. (Eds.). (2013). Discrete Geometry and Optimization (Vol. 69). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Asakawa, Y., Ludwiczuk, A., & Nagashima, F. (2013). Chemical Constituents of Bryophyta. In A. Ludwiczuk & F. Nagashima (Eds.), Chemical Constituents of Bryophytes: Bio- and Chemical Diversity, Biological Activity, and Chemosystematics (pp. 563–605). 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 Cognitive Neuropsychology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, August 19). Smaller Hippocampus Leads To Better Memory In Marijuana And Tobacco Users. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/smaller-hippocampus-leads-to-better-memory-in-marijuana-and-tobacco-users/

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. (2005). Public Transportation: Opportunities Exist to Improve the Communication and Transparency of Changes Made to the New Starts Program (GAO-05-674). 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

Rodriguez, E. P. (2014). Curriculum development for nursing assistants: Pressure ulcer prevention module [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, January 11). Supreme Court Allows Disabled Georgia Inmate to Proceed With Suit Against State. New York Times, A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (DePinho, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (DePinho, 2000; Sawa & Snyder, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Sawa & Snyder, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Gill et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cognitive Neuropsychology
Abbreviation	Cogn. Neuropsychol.
ISSN (print)	0264-3294
ISSN (online)	1464-0627
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental and Educational Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology