How to format your references using the Consciousness and Cognition citation style

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

Kramer, M. (2009). Astronomy. Extreme spinning tops. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5933), 1396–1397.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nielsen, S., & Zenkin, N. (2014). Transcription. Response to Comment on “Mechanism of eukaryotic RNA polymerase III transcription termination.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6196), 524.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maamar, H., Raj, A., & Dubnau, D. (2007). Noise in gene expression determines cell fate in Bacillus subtilis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5837), 526–529.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Gill, J. A., Norris, K., Potts, P. M., Gunnarsson, T. G., Atkinson, P. W., & Sutherland, W. J. (2001). The buffer effect and large-scale population regulation in migratory birds. Nature, 412(6845), 436–438.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Holt, J. (2013). The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy. John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Senechal, M. (Ed.). (2013). Shaping Space: Exploring Polyhedra in Nature, Art, and the Geometrical Imagination. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Neiderhiser, J. M. (2011). Gene–Environment Interplay Helps to Explain Influences of Family Relationships on Adolescent Adjustment and Development. In A. Booth, S. M. McHale, & N. S. Landale (Eds.), Biosocial Foundations of Family Processes (pp. 71–84). 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 Consciousness and Cognition.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, March 6). New Evidence Plants Can “Think” And Make Decisions Based On Possible Future Risks. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-evidence-plants-can-think-and-make-decisions-based-possible-future-risks/

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. (1971). Assessment of the Teacher Corps Program at Northern Arizona University and Participating Schools on the Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservations (B-164031(1)). 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

Patrick, N. S. (2010). Employees’ Perceptions of Employers’ Response After Workplace Injury [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida Atlantic 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

Rojas, R. (2016, October 18). Prosecutors Set to Begin in Retrial of Patz Suspect. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kramer, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Kramer, 2009; Nielsen & Zenkin, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Nielsen & Zenkin, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Gill et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Consciousness and Cognition
Abbreviation	Conscious. Cogn.
ISSN (print)	1053-8100
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Developmental and Educational Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology