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

de Gennes, P. G. (2001). Ultradivided matter. Nature, 412(6845), 385.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu, C.-C., & Chen, C.-C. (2014). The symmetry detection mechanisms are color selective. Scientific Reports, 4, 3893.

A journal article with 3 authors

Efremov, R. G., Baradaran, R., & Sazanov, L. A. (2010). The architecture of respiratory complex I. Nature, 465(7297), 441–445.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Humpherys, D., Eggan, K., Akutsu, H., Hochedlinger, K., Rideout, W. M., 3rd, Biniszkiewicz, D., Yanagimachi, R., & Jaenisch, R. (2001). Epigenetic instability in ES cells and cloned mice. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5527), 95–97.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chan, N. H. (2010). Time Series: Applications to Finance with R and S-Plus®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wei, S. (2013). Atlas of Bone Pathology (G. P. Siegal, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Qureshi, H., & Verma, A. (2013). It Is Just Not Cricket. In M. R. Haberfeld & D. Sheehan (Eds.), Match-Fixing in International Sports: Existing Processes, Law Enforcement, and Prevention Strategies (pp. 69–88). Springer International Publishing.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, July 26). Mystery Of Missing Big Craters On Dwarf Planet Ceres May Have Been Solved. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mystery-of-missing-big-craters-on-dwarf-planet-ceres-may-have-been-solved/

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. (1992). National Aero-Space Plane: Restructuring Future Research and Development Efforts (NSIAD-93-71). 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

Wei, C.-S. (2017). Towards Brain Decoding for Real-World Drowsiness Detection [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego.

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

Hollander, S. (1999, November 8). Letting Nothing Stop the Streak. New York Times, F3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (de Gennes, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (de Gennes, 2001; Wu & Chen, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wu & Chen, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Humpherys et al., 2001)

About the journal

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