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

Smaglik, P. (2001). US structural genomics effort needs physicists for success. Nature, 410(6829), 723–724.

A journal article with 2 authors

Curry Rogers, K., & Forster, C. A. (2001). The last of the dinosaur titans: a new sauropod from Madagascar. Nature, 412(6846), 530–534.

A journal article with 3 authors

McCarter, J., Boge, G., & Darlow, G. (2001). Essays on science and society. Safeguarding the world’s natural treasures. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5549), 2099–2101.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Santarelli, R., Gonnella, R., Di Giovenale, G., Cuomo, L., Capobianchi, A., Granato, M., Gentile, G., Faggioni, A., & Cirone, M. (2014). STAT3 activation by KSHV correlates with IL-10, IL-6 and IL-23 release and an autophagic block in dendritic cells. Scientific Reports, 4, 4241.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bisgaard, S., & Kulahci, M. (2011). Time Series Analysis and Forecasting by Example: Bisgaard/Time Series by Example. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Meadows, C., & Fernandez-Gago, C. (Eds.). (2012). Security and Trust Management: 7th International Workshop, STM 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 27-28, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 7170). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chatzipetrou, P., Karapiperis, C., Palampouiki, C., & Angelis, L. (2014). Statistical Analysis of Requirements Prioritization for Transition to Web Technologies: A Case Study in an Electric Power Organization. In D. Winkler, S. Biffl, & J. Bergsmann (Eds.), Software Quality. Model-Based Approaches for Advanced Software and Systems Engineering: 6th International Conference, SWQD 2014, Vienna, Austria, January 14-16, 2014. Proceedings (pp. 63–84). 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

Andrew, D. (2015, August 29). Scientists Are Tweeting Photos Of Animal Genitals In A #JunkOff. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/junkoff-0/

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). Visibility and Leadership: The Changing Federal Role in Education (147976). 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

Kim, H. (2008). Prediction and Elimination of Galling in Forming Galvanized Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State University.

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

Schwirtz, M., & Mueller, B. (2017, July 27). Inmate at Rikers Is Missing After Eluding Several Guards. New York Times, A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Curry Rogers & Forster, 2001; Smaglik, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Curry Rogers & Forster, 2001)
Three authors: (McCarter et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Santarelli et al., 2014)

About the journal

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