How to format your references using the Brain and Cognition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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	Download the output style file
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

Harmer, M. P. (2011). Materials science. The phase behavior of interfaces. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6026), 182–183.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gneiting, T., & Raftery, A. E. (2005). Atmospheric science. Weather forecasting with ensemble methods. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5746), 248–249.

A journal article with 3 authors

David, C., Mortensen, N. A., & Christensen, J. (2013). Perfect imaging, epsilon-near zero phenomena and waveguiding in the scope of nonlocal effects. Scientific Reports, 3, 2526.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mishima, M., Pavicic, V., Grüneberg, U., Nigg, E. A., & Glotzer, M. (2004). Cell cycle regulation of central spindle assembly. Nature, 430(7002), 908–913.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lowman, M. (2017). A Practical Guide to Analytics for Governments. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chen, S.-J. (2012). Reconfigurable Networks-on-Chip (Y.-C. Lan, W.-C. Tsai, & Y.-H. Hu, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Fisher, M., Ghidini, C., & Kakoudakis, A. (2006). Dynamic Team Formation in Executable Agent-Based Systems. In C. A. Rouff, M. Hinchey, J. Rash, W. Truszkowski, & D. Gordon-Spears (Eds.), Agent Technology from a Formal Perspective (pp. 139–158). 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 Brain and Cognition.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2017, February 27). What 5 Popular Drugs Including Weed And Booze Do To Your Body And Brain. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2007). Hospital Quality Data: HHS Should Specify Steps and Time Frame for Using Information Technology to Collect and Submit Data (GAO-07-320). 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

Lyzlov, A. (2017). In Vivo Efficacy of Lanthanum Carbonate on Intestinal Phosphorus Absorption in Stage Five Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Undergoing Peritoneal Dialysis [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

(nyt), S. K. (2002, January 5). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Saving Sturgeon, And Caviar. New York Times, A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harmer, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Gneiting & Raftery, 2005; Harmer, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Gneiting & Raftery, 2005)
Three authors: (David et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Mishima et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Brain and Cognition
Abbreviation	Brain Cogn.
ISSN (print)	0278-2626
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental and Educational Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology