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

Szidat, S. (2009). Atmosphere. Sources of Asian haze. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5913), 470–471.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hines, P. J., & Zahn, L. M. (2009). What’s bugging plants? Plant-microbe interactions. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5928), 741.

A journal article with 3 authors

Renvall, V., Nangini, C., & Hari, R. (2014). All that glitters is not BOLD: inconsistencies in functional MRI. Scientific Reports, 4, 3920.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bhatt, D. H., Otto, S. J., Depoister, B., & Fetcho, J. R. (2004). Cyclic AMP-induced repair of zebrafish spinal circuits. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5681), 254–258.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rezg, N., Dellagi, S., & Khatab, A. (2014). Joint Optimization of Maintenance and Production Policies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Jensen, T. H. (Ed.). (2010). RNA Exosome (Vol. 702). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Keune, J. D., & Hall, B. L. (2013). Understanding Quality and Cost from a Health Policy Perspective. In M. K. Sethi & W. H. Frist (Eds.), An Introduction to Health Policy: A Primer for Physicians and Medical Students (pp. 53–68). 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 Neuroscience.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 10). How American Journalists Covered The First Use Of The Atomic Bomb. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-american-journalists-covered-first-use-atomic-bomb/

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. (1997). [Comments on Amtrak Labor Protection Issues] (B-277814). 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

Mylonas, A. (2014). “Women are the pillars of the family”: Athenian women’s survival strategies during economic crisis [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Hirsch, G. A. (2011, April 24). The Humanity of the Long-Distance Runner. New York Times, SP10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Szidat, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Hines & Zahn, 2009; Szidat, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Hines & Zahn, 2009)
Three authors: (Renvall et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Bhatt et al., 2004)

About the journal

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

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