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

Bonetta L (2008) Epigenomics: Detailed analysis. Nature 454:795–798

A journal article with 2 authors

Ratnieks FLW, Wenseleers T (2005) Evolution. Policing insect societies. Science 307:54–56

A journal article with 3 authors

Weidinger M, Møller P, Fynbo JPU (2004) The Lyman-alpha glow of gas falling into the dark matter halo of a z = 3 galaxy. Nature 430:999–1001

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gobeil C, Macdonald RW, Smith JN, Beaudin L (2001) Atlantic water flow pathways revealed by lead contamination in Arctic basin sediments. Science 293:1301–1304

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burton E (2016) Business and Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Furukawa T, Hurley JB, Kawamura S (eds) (2014) Vertebrate Photoreceptors: Functional Molecular Bases. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Xiang Y, Peng D, Yang Z (2015) Future Work. In: Peng D, Yang Z (eds) Blind Source Separation: Dependent Component Analysis. Springer, Singapore, pp 91–94

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

Andrew E (2015) Slowdown Of Brain’s Waste Removal System Could Drive Alzheimer’s. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/slowdown-brain-s-waste-removal-system-could-drive-alzheimer-s/. 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 (1991) Supercomputing in Industry. 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

Ward D (2014) Teaching with the End in Mind: A Teacher’s Life History as a Legacy of Educational Leaders. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Kishkovsky S (2008) Minarets and Onion Domes. New York Times TR4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bonetta 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Ratnieks and Wenseleers 2005; Bonetta 2008).

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

Two authors: (Ratnieks and Wenseleers 2005)
Three or more authors: (Gobeil et al. 2001)

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