How to format your references using the Cognitive Computation citation style

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

1. Thomas JM. Catalysis: Tens of thousands of atoms replaced by one. Nature. 2015;525:325–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. McBrearty S, Jablonski NG. First fossil chimpanzee. Nature. 2005;437:105–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Arita I, Nakane M, Fenner F. Public health. Is polio eradication realistic? Science. 2006;312:852–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Chung H-Y, Weinberger MB, Levine JB, Cumberland RW, Kavner A, Yang J-M, et al. Synthesis of ultra-incompressible superhard rhenium diboride at ambient pressure. Science. 2007;316:436–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ghavami M, Michael LB, Kohno R. Ultra Wideband Signals and Systems in Communication Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Masters JR, Palsson BØ, editors. Human Adult Stem Cells. 1st ed. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Richez-Battesti N, Leseul G. Cooperative Banks in France: Emergence, Mutations and Issues. In: Karafolas S, editor. Credit Cooperative Institutions in European Countries. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 55–81.

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 Cognitive Computation.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Whale Nerves Can Stretch To Double Original Size [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/whales-have-elastic-nerves/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Aviation Safety: NASA’s National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service Project Was Designed Appropriately, but Sampling and Other Issues Complicate Data Analysis. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Mar. Report No.: GAO-09-112.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Stroot PG. Novel Reverse Transcription Method Confirms Growth Inhibition of Bacteria Exposed to Domestic Wastewater [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2004.

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

1. Steel E, Schmidt MS. O’Reilly Settled Claim, Then Got a New Fox Deal. New York Times. 2017 Oct 21;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Cognitive Computation
Abbreviation	Cognit. Comput.
ISSN (print)	1866-9956
ISSN (online)	1866-9964
Scope	Computer Science Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Cognitive Neuroscience