How to format your references using the Cognitive Psychology citation style

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

Ambrose, S. H. (2006). Anthropology. A tool for all seasons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5801), 930–931.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forterre, Y., & Dumais, J. (2011). Materials science. Generating helices in nature. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6050), 1715–1716.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ince, D. C., Hatton, L., & Graham-Cumming, J. (2012). The case for open computer programs. Nature, 482(7386), 485–488.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Choi, H.-J., Choi, J.-S., Park, B.-J., Eom, J.-H., Heo, S.-Y., Jung, M.-W., An, K.-S., & Yoon, S.-G. (2014). Enhanced transparency, mechanical durability, and antibacterial activity of zinc nanoparticles on glass substrate. Scientific Reports, 4, 6271.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Arduin, P.-E., Grundstein, M., & Rosenthal-Sabroux, C. (2015). Information and Knowledge System. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kassim, T. A. (Ed.). (2005). Water Pollution: Environmental Impact Assessment of Recycled Wastes on Surface and Ground Waters; Engineering Modeling and Sustainability (Vol. 3). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ren, W., Song, J., Ma, Z., & Huang, S. (2009). Towards a Bio-inspired Security Framework for Mission-Critical Wireless Sensor Networks. In Z. Cai, Z. Li, Z. Kang, & Y. Liu (Eds.), Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems: 4th International Symposium, ISICA 2009, Huangshi, China, October 23-25, 2009. Proceedings (pp. 35–44). 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 Psychology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, July 20). Arctic Sea Ice Had A Massive 41% Increase In Summer 2013, But Overall It’s Still Shrinking. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/arctic-sea-ice-had-massive-41-increase-summer-2013-overall-trends-are-still-down/

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). Traffic Congestion: The Need and Opportunity for Federal Involvement (T-PEMD-91-10). 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

Shockley, C. (2010). Mental health parity law: A policy analysis [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

Tavernise, S. (2015, August 30). Russian Tourists Gain Appreciation for the Motherland. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ambrose, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Ambrose, 2006; Forterre & Dumais, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Forterre & Dumais, 2011)
Three authors: (Ince et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Choi et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cognitive Psychology
Abbreviation	Cogn. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0010-0285
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Developmental and Educational Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Linguistics and Language