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

Freeman, K. H. (2014). Earth science: controls on isotopic gradients in rain. Nature, 516(7529), 41–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Szathmáry, E., & Hammerstein, P. (2004). Obituary: John Maynard Smith (1920-2004). Nature, 429(6989), 258–259.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoshimura, Y., Dantzker, J. L. M., & Callaway, E. M. (2005). Excitatory cortical neurons form fine-scale functional networks. Nature, 433(7028), 868–873.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Groll, M., Schellenberg, B., Bachmann, A. S., Archer, C. R., Huber, R., Powell, T. K., Lindow, S., Kaiser, M., & Dudler, R. (2008). A plant pathogen virulence factor inhibits the eukaryotic proteasome by a novel mechanism. Nature, 452(7188), 755–758.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fredriksson, H., & Åkerlind, U. (2012). Solidification and Crystallization Processing in Metals and Alloys. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Shen, X., Mueller, F., & Tuck, J. (Eds.). (2016). Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing: 28th International Workshop, LCPC 2015, Raleigh, NC, USA, September 9-11, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (1st ed. 2016, Vol. 9519). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Xavier, G. R., Correia, M. E. F., de Aquino, A. M., Zilli, J. É., & Rumjanek, N. G. (2010). The Structural and Functional Biodiversity of Soil: An Interdisciplinary Vision for Conservation Agriculture in Brazil. In P. Dion (Ed.), Soil Biology and Agriculture in the Tropics (pp. 65–80). 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

Andrew, E. (2014, August 1). Transparent Mice Allow Incredible Anatomical Views. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/transparent-mice-allow-incredible-anatomical-views/

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. (1988). Competition in the Airline Computerized Reservation System Industry (T-RCED-88-62). 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

Grandon, J. (2015). The Distribution of Apiaceae in Lafayette and St. Martin Parishes [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2016, September 30). Review: ‘Danny Says,’ a Paean to a Rock Gadfly and Tastemaker. New York Times, C10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Freeman, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Freeman, 2014; Szathmáry & Hammerstein, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Szathmáry & Hammerstein, 2004)
Three authors: (Yoshimura et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Groll et al., 2008)

About the journal

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