How to format your references using the Cognitive Psychology citation style

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

Militzer, M. (2002). Materials science. A synchrotron look at steel. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5595), 975–976.

A journal article with 2 authors

Folkman, J., & Camphausen, K. (2001). Cancer. What does radiotherapy do to endothelial cells? Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5528), 227–228.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maiorano, D., Moreau, J., & Méchali, M. (2000). XCDT1 is required for the assembly of pre-replicative complexes in Xenopus laevis. Nature, 404(6778), 622–625.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Kapoor, A., Goldberg, M. S., Cumberland, L. K., Ratnakumar, K., Segura, M. F., Emanuel, P. O., Menendez, S., Vardabasso, C., Leroy, G., Vidal, C. I., Polsky, D., Osman, I., Garcia, B. A., Hernando, E., & Bernstein, E. (2010). The histone variant macroH2A suppresses melanoma progression through regulation of CDK8. Nature, 468(7327), 1105–1109.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hetherington, S. (2011). How to Know. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Choren, R., Garcia, A., Lucena, C., & Romanovsky, A. (Eds.). (2005). Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III: Research Issues and Practical Applications (Vol. 3390). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Amos, T. L., Rau, N., & Scott, C. R. (2015). Marketing to the Youth in South Africa: An International Comparison of the Aspirations of Higher Education Students. In J.-C. Chebat & A. B. Oumlil (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1998 Multicultural Marketing Conference (pp. 30–44). Springer International Publishing.

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 Psychology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2017, March 30). Something Big Exploded In A Galaxy Far, Far Away: What Was It? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/something-big-exploded-in-a-galaxy-far-far-away-what-was-it/

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. (1973). Review of Claims Settlement (B-179146). 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

Roy, R. (2013). “Jagoron: Awakening” to Gender in Non Governmental Organizations in Contemporary Bengal [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Goldstein, J. (2014, July 23). Police Study Use of Force; May Issue More Tasers. New York Times, A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Militzer, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Folkman & Camphausen, 2001; Militzer, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Folkman & Camphausen, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kapoor et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cognitive Psychology
Abbreviation	Cogn. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0010-0285
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Developmental and Educational Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Linguistics and Language