How to format your references using the Cognitive Development citation style

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

Overbaugh, J. (2011). 24/7 isn’t the only way: A healthy work-life balance can enhance research. Nature, 477(7362), 27–28.

A journal article with 2 authors

Labouriau, R., & Amorim, A. (2008). Comment on “An association between the kinship and fertility of human couples.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5908), 1634; author reply 1634.

A journal article with 3 authors

Azzam, N. A., Hallenbeck, J. M., & Kachar, B. (2000). Membrane changes during hibernation. Nature, 407(6802), 317–318.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sun, X., Song, P., Zhang, Y., Liu, C., Xu, W., & Xing, W. (2013). A class of high performance metal-free oxygen reduction electrocatalysts based on cheap carbon blacks. Scientific Reports, 3, 2505.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mix, P. E. (2004). Introduction to Nondestructive Testing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ceccarelli, M. (Ed.). (2010). Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science: Their Contributions and Legacies, Part 2 (Vol. 7). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Balbiani, P., & Gencer, Ç. (2015). Admissibility and Unifiability in Contact Logics. In M. Aher, D. Hole, E. Jeřábek, & C. Kupke (Eds.), Logic, Language, and Computation: 10th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation, TbiLLC 2013, Gudauri, Georgia, September 23-27, 2013. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 44–60). 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 Cognitive Development.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, May 26). New Class Of Star Clusters Have A Weighty Problem. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-class-star-clusters-have-weighty-problem/

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. (1991). Job Training Partnership Act: Racial and Gender Disparities in Services (T-HRD-91-42). 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

Poyaoan-Linzaga, M. R. (2014). The effects of patient communication in early intervention for falls among the Medicare patients [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

Kishkovsky, S. (2013, March 21). Best-Selling Russian Turns to History. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Overbaugh, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Labouriau & Amorim, 2008; Overbaugh, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Labouriau & Amorim, 2008)
Three authors: (Azzam et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Sun et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cognitive Development
Abbreviation	Cogn. Dev.
ISSN (print)	0885-2014
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology