How to format your references using the Cognitive Neurodynamics citation style

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

Pockley P (2001) Gene screens for nuclear veterans. Nature 412:5

A journal article with 2 authors

Nathanson N, Fine P (2002) Virology. Poliomyelitis eradication--a dangerous endgame. Science 296:269–270

A journal article with 3 authors

Fortin NJ, Wright SP, Eichenbaum H (2004) Recollection-like memory retrieval in rats is dependent on the hippocampus. Nature 431:188–191

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Giannakou ME, Goss M, Jünger MA, et al (2004) Long-lived Drosophila with overexpressed dFOXO in adult fat body. Science 305:361

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pangarkar VG (2014) Design of Multiphase Reactors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Okereke OI (ed) (2015) Prevention of Late-Life Depression: Current Clinical Challenges and Priorities. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Swami R, Kumar D, Khan W, et al (2014) Polymer–Drug Conjugate in Focal Drug Delivery. In: Domb AJ, Khan W (eds) Focal Controlled Drug Delivery. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 117–147

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 Neurodynamics.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) The Brains Of Amputees Remember Their Lost Limbs For Decades. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brains-amputees-remember-their-lost-limbs-decades/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1975) Automatic Data Processing Activity in the Feed Materials Production Center, Fernald, Ohio. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hung H-C (2006) Allocation of Jobs and Resources to Work Centers. 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

Kelly AL (1999) For Employed Moms, the Pinnacle Of Stress Comes After Work Ends. New York Times 1518

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pockley 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Pockley 2001; Nathanson and Fine 2002).

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

Two authors: (Nathanson and Fine 2002)
Three or more authors: (Giannakou et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cognitive Neurodynamics
Abbreviation	Cogn. Neurodyn.
ISSN (print)	1871-4080
ISSN (online)	1871-4099
Scope	Cognitive Neuroscience