How to format your references using the Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain 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

Raven, K. (2013). How sexual harassment changed the way I work. Nature, 504(7478), 9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Steig, E. J., & Wolfe, A. P. (2008). Atmospheric science. Sprucing up Greenland. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5883), 1595–1596.

A journal article with 3 authors

Basu, P., Qiu, J., & Powell, K. (2008). Making a difference. Nature, 455(7215), 1002–1003.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Menuz, K., Stroud, R. M., Nicoll, R. A., & Hays, F. A. (2007). TARP auxiliary subunits switch AMPA receptor antagonists into partial agonists. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5851), 815–817.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Park, S., & Guille-Escuret, G. (2017). Sociobiology vs Socioecology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hublin, J.-J., Harvati, K., & Harrison, T. (Eds.). (2006). Neanderthals Revisited: New Approaches and Perspectives. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Oh, S., & Jin, Y. (2015). Incremental Approximation Models for Constrained Evolutionary Optimization. In R. Datta & K. Deb (Eds.), Evolutionary Constrained Optimization (pp. 135–156). Springer India.

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 Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, May 4). Mysterious Signals From Center Of The Milky Way Probably Pulsars Not Dark Matter. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mysterious-signals-from-center-of-the-milky-way-probably-pulsars-not-dark-matter/

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. (1998). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Significant Risks Remain to Department of Education’s Student Financial Aid Systems (T-AIMD-98-302). 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

Gonzalez, E. R. (2015). Technology and adiposity: Effects of television time, video or computer game time, and computer use on body fat among Latino youth [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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, March 1). The President Changes His Tone, if Not His Tune. 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 (Raven, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Raven, 2013; Steig & Wolfe, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Steig & Wolfe, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Menuz et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition
Abbreviation	Laterality
ISSN (print)	1357-650X
ISSN (online)	1464-0678
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) General Medicine General Psychology