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

Peng, R. D. (2011). Reproducible research in computational science. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6060), 1226–1227.

A journal article with 2 authors

Plaçais, P.-Y., & Preat, T. (2013). To favor survival under food shortage, the brain disables costly memory. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6118), 440–442.

A journal article with 3 authors

Westover, K. D., Bushnell, D. A., & Kornberg, R. D. (2004). Structural basis of transcription: separation of RNA from DNA by RNA polymerase II. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5660), 1014–1016.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Deville, S., Saiz, E., Nalla, R. K., & Tomsia, A. P. (2006). Freezing as a path to build complex composites. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5760), 515–518.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schaik, C. P. V. (2015). The Primate Origins of Human Nature. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dieks, D., Gonzalez, W. J., Hartmann, S., Uebel, T., & Weber, M. (Eds.). (2011). Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation (Vol. 2). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Bobrov, P., Frolov, A. A., & Húsek, D. (2013). Brain Computer Interface Enhancement by Independent Component Analysis. In M. Kudělka, J. Pokorný, V. Snášel, & A. Abraham (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI 2011), Prague, Czech Republic, August, 2011 (pp. 51–60). 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

Luntz, S. (2015, October 22). Ants Improve Network Design. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ants-improve-network-design/

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. (1978). Quality of Weather Forecasts and Opportunity for Improvements (CED-78-33). 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

Wirtz, Y. (2017). Strain Variation between the Monterey and Sisquoc Formations, Southern Santa Maria Basin, California, USA: Implications for Structural Assessment of Fold and Thrust Belts [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

Paulson, M. (2017, June 23). Artistic Director Leaves The Labyrinth Theater. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Peng, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Peng, 2011; Plaçais & Preat, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Plaçais & Preat, 2013)
Three authors: (Westover et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Deville et al., 2006)

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