How to format your references using the Cognitive Research citation style

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

Cazenave A. Atmosphere. How fast are the ice sheets melting? Science. 2006 Nov 24;314(5803):1250–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yin Y, Alivisatos AP. Colloidal nanocrystal synthesis and the organic-inorganic interface. Nature. 2005 Sep 29;437(7059):664–70.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saeed Y, Singh N, Schwingenschlögl U. Superior thermoelectric response in the 3R phases of hydrated NaxRhO2. Sci. Rep. 2014 Mar 17;4:4390.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Brennecke F, Ritter S, Donner T, Esslinger T. Cavity optomechanics with a Bose-Einstein condensate. Science. 2008 Oct 10;322(5899):235–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lindahl D. Trump University Commercial Real Estate 101. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Nelson KE, editor. Encyclopedia of Metagenomics: Genes, Genomes and Metagenomes: Basics, Methods, Databases and Tools. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Kadow JF, Langley DR, Meanwell NA, Pracitto R, Walker MA, Yeung K-S. Protein-Protein Interaction Targets to Inhibit HIV-1 Infection. In: Wendt MD, editor. Protein-Protein Interactions. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 105–65.

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 Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. The 2015 Sierra Nevada Snowpack Is At A 500-Year Record Low [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/2015-sierra-nevada-snowpack-500-year-record-low/

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. Requirements for Recurring Reports to the Congress. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980 Nov. Report No.: PAD-80-49.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Mann HM. Testing for differentially functioning indicators using mixtures of confirmatory factor analysis models [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2009.

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

David Goodman J. Police Issue Fewer Tickets for Minor Offenses Such as Public Urination. New York Times. 2017 Oct 20;A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cazenave 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Cazenave 2006; Yin and Alivisatos 2005).

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

Two authors: (Yin and Alivisatos 2005)
Three or more authors: (Brennecke et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cognitive Research
Abbreviation	Cogn. Res. Princ. Implic.
ISSN (online)	2365-7464
Scope