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

Dekker J (2008) Gene regulation in the third dimension. Science 319:1793–1794

A journal article with 2 authors

Bowles S, Posel D (2005) Genetic relatedness predicts South African migrant workers’ remittances to their families. Nature 434:380–383

A journal article with 3 authors

Stephens IEL, Elias JS, Shao-Horn Y (2015) CATALYSIS. The importance of being together. Science 350:164–165

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Angelini A, Barakat E, Munzert P, et al (2014) Focusing and extraction of light mediated by Bloch surface waves. Sci Rep 4:5428

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Köhler A, Bässler H (2015) Electronic Processes in Organic Semiconductors. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Prodi G (ed) (2011) Eigenvalues of Non-Linear Problems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Aptekar L, Stoecklin D (2014) Research with Children in Street Situations. In: Stoecklin D (ed) Street Children and Homeless Youth: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 121–162

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

Evans K (2016) Here’s The Easiest Way To Undo The Harms Of Sitting All Day. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/heres-the-easiest-way-to-undo-the-harms-of-sitting-all-day/. 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 (1977) Comments on Senate Bill 991, A Bill to Establish a Department of Education. 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

Allen SA (2014) Dispersed Social Work: Understanding Social Presence and Organizational Identification Through the Use of New Communication Technologies. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Caramanica J (2017) Sometimes Heartbreak Is a Blessing. New York Times C2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dekker 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bowles and Posel 2005; Dekker 2008).

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

Two authors: (Bowles and Posel 2005)
Three or more authors: (Angelini et al. 2014)

About the journal

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