How to format your references using the Cognitive Neuroscience citation style

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

Gray, R. (2005). Evolution. Pushing the time barrier in the quest for language roots. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5743), 2007–2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forster, P., & Renfrew, C. (2011). Evolution. Mother tongue and Y chromosomes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6048), 1390–1391.

A journal article with 3 authors

Buhr, E. D., Yoo, S.-H., & Takahashi, J. S. (2010). Temperature as a universal resetting cue for mammalian circadian oscillators. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6002), 379–385.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zuber, M. T., Phillips, R. J., Andrews-Hanna, J. C., Asmar, S. W., Konopliv, A. S., Lemoine, F. G., Plaut, J. J., Smith, D. E., & Smrekar, S. E. (2007). Density of Mars’ south polar layered deposits. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5845), 1718–1719.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Estopinal, S. V., & Lathrop, W. (2011). Professional Surveyors and Real Property Descriptions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sarkar, P., & Iwata, T. (Eds.). (2014). Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2014: 20th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Kaoshiung, Taiwan, R.O.C., December 7-11, 2014. Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 8873). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Carpenter, D. (2016). Billing and Coding for Procedures. In D. A. Taylor, S. P. Sherry, & R. F. Sing (Eds.), Interventional Critical Care: A Manual for Advanced Care Practitioners (pp. 31–39). 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 Neuroscience.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 28). The Smell Of Death: Its Chemical Pattern Could Become A Powerful Forensic Tool. 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. (1993). Vocational Education: Status in 2-Year Colleges in 1990-91 and Early Signs of Change (HRD-93-89). 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

Bermudez, D. (2008). The effects of Hispanic parent-adolescent biculturalism disparity on male adolescent delinquency [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

Williams, J. (2016, October 9). In Her Shoes. New York Times, BR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gray, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Forster & Renfrew, 2011; Gray, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Forster & Renfrew, 2011)
Three authors: (Buhr et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Zuber et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cognitive Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Cogn. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	1758-8928
ISSN (online)	1758-8936
Scope	Cognitive Neuroscience