How to format your references using the Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Auerbach, E. (2014). Iran needs to present a united front on science. Nature, 508(7497), 433.

A journal article with 2 authors

Caputo, J. M., & Collins, S. H. (2014). Prosthetic ankle push-off work reduces metabolic rate but not collision work in non-amputee walking. Scientific Reports, 4, 7213.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, A. S. Y., Kranzusch, P. J., & Cate, J. H. D. (2015). eIF3 targets cell-proliferation messenger RNAs for translational activation or repression. Nature, 522(7554), 111–114.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Oremland, R. S., Kulp, T. R., Blum, J. S., Hoeft, S. E., Baesman, S., Miller, L. G., & Stolz, J. F. (2005). A microbial arsenic cycle in a salt-saturated, extreme environment. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5726), 1305–1308.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deacon, M., Derry, A., & Mirfendereski, D. (2004). Inflation-indexed Securities. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Turnbull, J. (2011). Pro Puppet (J. McCune, Ed.). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Ma, H., Schewe, K.-D., & Thalheim, B. (2009). Modelling and Maintenance of Very Large Database Schemata Using Meta-structures. In J. Yang, A. Ginige, H. C. Mayr, & R.-D. Kutsche (Eds.), Information Systems: Modeling, Development, and Integration: Third International United Information Systems Conference, UNISCON 2009, Sydney, Australia, April 21-24, 2009. Proceedings (pp. 17–28). 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 Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, January 29). Newly Discovered Dinosaur Had Neck Half The Length Of Its Body. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/newly-discovered-dinosaur-had-neck-half-length-its-body/

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. (1980). Need for Improved Management and Increased Sharing of Computer Resources at the San Antonio Data Services Center (FGMSD-80-82). 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

Pratt, P. R. (2009). Analysis of the thermo-mechanical characteristics of the LENS^TM process for steels using the finite element method [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State 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

Kelly, K. (2010, September 19). Achieving Techno-Literacy. New York Times, MM21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Auerbach, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Auerbach, 2014; Caputo & Collins, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Caputo & Collins, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Oremland et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
Abbreviation	Biol. Inspired Cogn. Arch.
ISSN (print)	2212-683X
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Neuroscience Experimental and Cognitive Psychology