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

Bentley CR. 2000. Antarctica. Stirring the icy waters. Nature. 403:610–611.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reisz RR, Smith MM. 2001. Developmental biology. Lungfish dental pattern conserved for 360 Myr. Nature. 411:548.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pesaran B, Nelson MJ, Andersen RA. 2008. Free choice activates a decision circuit between frontal and parietal cortex. Nature. 453:406–409.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Springel V, White SDM, Frenk CS, Navarro JF, Jenkins A, Vogelsberger M, Wang J, Ludlow A, Helmi A. 2008. Prospects for detecting supersymmetric dark matter in the Galactic halo. Nature. 456:73–76.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Balmori D. 2014. Drawing and Reinventing Landscape. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lal SK (Ed.). 2010. Molecular Biology of the SARS-Coronavirus. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang Y, Wang H, Li J, Gao H. 2016. Efficient Influence Maximization in Weighted Independent Cascade Model. In: Navathe SB,, Wu W,, Shekhar S,, Du X,, Wang SX,, Xiong H, editors. Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 21st International Conference, DASFAA 2016, Dallas, TX, USA, April 16-19, 2016, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing. p. 49–64.

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

Luntz S. 2015. Mummified Monk Found In Lotus Position [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mummified-monk-lotus-position/

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. 1979. Problems Associated With Developing Large, Complex Data Processing Systems ( No. FGMSD-79-49). 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

Torres C. 2013. Grassroots in Santa Ana: Identity and conceptualizing community (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

Kishkovsky S. 2015. Russian Local Elections Draw Charges of Fraud. New York Times. A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bentley 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bentley 2000; Reisz and Smith 2001).

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

Two authors: (Reisz and Smith 2001)
Three or more authors: (Springel et al. 2008)

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

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