How to format your references using the Cognitive Processing citation style

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

Hanson J (2014) John Cornforth (1917-2013). Nature 506:35

A journal article with 2 authors

Lewis A, Tomlinson I (2012) Cancer. The utility of mouse models in post-GWAS research. Science 338:1301–1302

A journal article with 3 authors

Lindström NO, Hohenstein P, Davies JA (2013) Nephrons require Rho-kinase for proximal-distal polarity development. Sci Rep 3:2692

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Aravin AA, Sachidanandam R, Girard A, et al (2007) Developmentally regulated piRNA clusters implicate MILI in transposon control. Science 316:744–747

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gonzalez R, Qi F, Huang B (2016) Process Control System Fault Diagnosis: A Bayesian Approach. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Cockell CS (ed) (2015) The Meaning of Liberty Beyond Earth. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Razzaque MA, S. AS, Cheraghi SM (2013) Security and Privacy in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks: Survey and the Road Ahead. In: Khan S, Khan Pathan A-S (eds) Wireless Networks and Security: Issues, Challenges and Research Trends. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 107–132

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 Processing.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) NASA Tests Buoyant Rover That Could Explore Europa’s Ocean. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-tests-buoyant-rover-could-explore-europas-ocean/. 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 (1988) Financial Reporting: NASA Can Improve Compliance With GAO Standards and Treasury Requirements. 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

Skinner R (2009) Artistiya: Popular music and personhood in postcolonial Bamako, Mali. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia 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

Silver-Greenberg J, Protess B (2016) Gun Control Groups Find a Wealthy Ally in Big Law. New York Times BU1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hanson 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Lewis and Tomlinson 2012; Hanson 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lewis and Tomlinson 2012)
Three or more authors: (Aravin et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cognitive Processing
Abbreviation	Cogn. Process.
ISSN (print)	1612-4782
ISSN (online)	1612-4790
Scope	Artificial Intelligence General Medicine Cognitive Neuroscience Experimental and Cognitive Psychology