How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied Research in Memory 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

Lerman, L. (2011). Genome-sequencing anniversary. The genome dances. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6020), 1027.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kinchen, J. M., & Ravichandran, K. S. (2010). Identification of two evolutionarily conserved genes regulating processing of engulfed apoptotic cells. Nature, 464(7289), 778–782.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, D., Zhang, P., & Yan, J. (2014). Ab initio molecular dynamics study of high-pressure melting of beryllium oxide. Scientific Reports, 4, 4707.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Guo, Q., Bin Huang, Cheng, J., Seefelder, M., Engler, T., Pfeifer, G., Oeckl, P., Otto, M., Moser, F., Maurer, M., Pautsch, A., Baumeister, W., Fernández-Busnadiego, R., & Kochanek, S. (2018). The cryo-electron microscopy structure of huntingtin. Nature, 555(7694), 117–120.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goering, H., Roos, H.-G., & Tobiska, L. (2010). Die Finite-Elemente-Methode für Anfänger. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Herrero, Á., & Corchado, E. (Eds.). (2011). Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems: 4th International Conference, CISIS 2011, Held at IWANN 2011, Torremolinos-Málaga, Spain, June 8-10, 2011. Proceedings (Vol. 6694). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mayer, G. S., Vrscay, E. R., Lauzon, M. L., Goodyear, B. G., & Mitchell, J. R. (2008). Self-similarity of Images in the Fourier Domain, with Applications to MRI. In A. Campilho & M. Kamel (Eds.), Image Analysis and Recognition: 5th International Conference, ICIAR 2008, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, June 25-27, 2008. Proceedings (pp. 43–52). 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 Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, March 2). Fossil Teeth of Mysterious Hippo Ancestor Unearthed in Kenya. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fossil-teeth-mysterious-hippo-ancestor-unearthed-kenya/

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. (1979). A Methodology for Reviewing Computer Software (090837). 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

Bailey, K. M. (2017). A Phenomenological Study of How Biblical Spiritual Disciplines Influence Women’s Character and Leadership Practices in Christian Faith-based Institutions in Higher Education in North America [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Vecsey, G. (2011, September 5). Home-Court Edge? Roddick Takes It, Happily. New York Times, D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lerman, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Kinchen & Ravichandran, 2010; Lerman, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kinchen & Ravichandran, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Guo et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Res. Mem. Cogn.
ISSN (print)	2211-3681
Scope