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. Schilling G. HIGH-ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS: Gamma Ray Bursts May Pack a One-Two Punch. Science. 2000;290:926–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Melbourne BA, Hastings A. Highly variable spread rates in replicated biological invasions: fundamental limits to predictability. Science. 2009;325:1536–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kamat SS, Williams HJ, Raushel FM. Intermediates in the transformation of phosphonates to phosphate by bacteria. Nature. 2011;480:570–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Michel LS, Liberal V, Chatterjee A, Kirchwegger R, Pasche B, Gerald W, et al. MAD2 haplo-insufficiency causes premature anaphase and chromosome instability in mammalian cells. Nature. 2001;409:355–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Wilmott P, Orrell D. The Money Formula. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

1. Marincola FM, Wang E, editors. Immunologic Signatures of Rejection. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hoki K, Yamaki M, Fujimura Y. Optical Control of Chiral Molecular Motors. In: Chin SL, Agostini P, Ferrante G, editors. Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science III. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 93–112.

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. Taub B. Here’s How The Brain Develops A Taste For Lying [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/heres-how-brain-develops-taste-lying/

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. Test and Evaluation: DOD Has Been Slow In Improving Testing of Software-Intensive Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Sep. Report No.: NSIAD-93-198.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Kohl JL. The association of critical thinking and participation in living and learning programs: Residential Honors compared to Civic /Social Leadership programs and non -participation in living and learning programs [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2009.

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. Kishkovsky S. In Blast Police Call Accident, Muscovites See Terrorist Hand. New York Times. 2002 Aug 22;A8.

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