How to format your references using the Schizophrenia Research: Cognition citation style

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Garrett, B.C., 2004. Chemistry. Ions at the air/water interface. Science 303, 1146–1147.
A journal article with 2 authors
Zavaleta, E.S., Hulvey, K.B., 2004. Realistic species losses disproportionately reduce grassland resistance to biological invaders. Science 306, 1175–1177.
A journal article with 3 authors
Scales, S.J., Finley, M.F., Scheller, R.H., 2001. Cell biology. Fusion without SNAREs? Science 294, 1015–1016.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Li, X., Monks, B., Ge, Q., Birnbaum, M.J., 2007. Akt/PKB regulates hepatic metabolism by directly inhibiting PGC-1alpha transcription coactivator. Nature 447, 1012–1016.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Fan, J., 2010. Multiscale Analysis of Deformation and Failure of Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.
An edited book
Glass, B.P., 2013. Distal Impact Ejecta Layers: A Record of Large Impacts in Sedimentary Deposits, Impact Studies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
A chapter in an edited book
Garrison, A.P., Helmrath, M.A., 2011. Parenteral Nutrition, in: Mattei, P. (Ed.), Fundamentals of Pediatric Surgery. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 33–36.

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 Schizophrenia Research: Cognition.

Blog post
Luntz, S., 2016. Green Light Could Help With Migraines [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2001. Telecommunications: Characteristics and Competitiveness of the Internet Backbone Market (No. GAO-02-16). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Stanton, B., 2009. On location: Race and family in the poetry of Sonia Sanchez, June Jordan, and Cathy Song (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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
Barron, J., 2017. A Solution to Subway Delays Caused by Crowding? More Standing Room. New York Times A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Garrett, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Garrett, 2004; Zavaleta and Hulvey, 2004).

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

  • Two authors: (Zavaleta and Hulvey, 2004)
  • Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal titleSchizophrenia Research: Cognition
AbbreviationSchizophr. Res. Cogn.
ISSN (print)2215-0013
Scope

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