How to format your references using the Cognitive Neuropsychology citation style

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

Pollard, T. D. (2011). Cell biology. Formin tip tracking. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6013), 39–41.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seibel, B. A., & Dierssen, H. M. (2009). Ocean science. Animal function at the heart (and gut) of oceanography. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5912), 343–344.

A journal article with 3 authors

Del Bene, F., Tessmar-Raible, K., & Wittbrodt, J. (2004). Direct interaction of geminin and Six3 in eye development. Nature, 427(6976), 745–749.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Patanè, D., De Gori, P., Chiarabba, C., & Bonaccorso, A. (2003). Magma ascent and the pressurization of Mount Etna’s volcanic system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5615), 2061–2063.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weisberg, H. I. (2014). Willful Ignorance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Plemenos, D. (2009). Visual Complexity and Intelligent Computer Graphics Techniques Enhancements (G. Miaoulis, Ed.; Vol. 200). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Meiss, J.-H., & Schröder, W. (2008). Large-Eddy Simulation of a Generic Space Vehicle. In A. Gülhan (Ed.), RESPACE – Key Technologies for Reusable Space Systems: Results of a Virtual Institute Programme of the German Helmholtz-Association, 2003 – 2007 (pp. 40–56). 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 Neuropsychology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, May 14). Researchers Reveal The First Warm-Blooded Fish. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2017). K-12 Education: Education Needs to Improve Oversight of Its 21st Century Program (GAO-17-400). 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

Warren, P. D. (2012). Characterizing polymers for cardiovascular devices [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2016, February 16). Witness Cites Recipe for Toxic Air, and Debt, at Puerto Rico’s Power Company. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pollard, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Pollard, 2011; Seibel & Dierssen, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Seibel & Dierssen, 2009)
Three authors: (Del Bene et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Patanè et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cognitive Neuropsychology
Abbreviation	Cogn. Neuropsychol.
ISSN (print)	0264-3294
ISSN (online)	1464-0627
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental and Educational Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology