How to format your references using the Cerebral Cortex citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cerebral Cortex. 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

DeLong EF. 2012. Evolution. Microbial evolution in the wild. Science. 336:422–424.

A journal article with 2 authors

Laughlin SB, Sejnowski TJ. 2003. Communication in neuronal networks. Science. 301:1870–1874.

A journal article with 3 authors

de Jong T, Linn MC, Zacharia ZC. 2013. Physical and virtual laboratories in science and engineering education. Science. 340:305–308.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Solomon DA, Kim T, Diaz-Martinez LA, Fair J, Elkahloun AG, Harris BT, Toretsky JA, Rosenberg SA, Shukla N, Ladanyi M, Samuels Y, James CD, Yu H, Kim J-S, Waldman T. 2011. Mutational inactivation of STAG2 causes aneuploidy in human cancer. Science. 333:1039–1043.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weiss A. 2009. Getting Started in Consulting. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chrisler JC, McCreary DR (Eds.). 2010. Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology: Volume 2: Gender Research in Social and Applied Psychology. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

LeHew CW. 2013. Challenges in Community-Based Head and Neck Cancer Prevention Programs. In: Radosevich JA, editor. Head & Neck Cancer: Current Perspectives, Advances, and Challenges. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. p. 73–86.

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 Cerebral Cortex.

Blog post

Andrews R. 2017. Anti-Vaxxer Campaign Causes Measles Outbreak In Minnesota [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/antivaxxer-campaign-measles-outbreak-minnesota/

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. 1997. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Time Is Running Out for Federal Agencies to Prepare for the New Millennium ( No. T-AIMD-97-129). Washington, DC: 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

Patra P. 2009. Image scaling with three different interpolation techniques and their comparisons (Doctoral dissertation).

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

Gustines GG. 2012. In Comics World, Needy Have Heroes Of Their Own. New York Times. F12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (DeLong 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Laughlin and Sejnowski 2003; DeLong 2012).

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

Two authors: (Laughlin and Sejnowski 2003)
Three or more authors: (Solomon et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cerebral Cortex
Abbreviation	Cereb. Cortex
ISSN (print)	1047-3211
ISSN (online)	1460-2199
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience