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

Zeilinger, A. (2000). QUANTUM COMPUTING: Quantum Entangled Bits Step Closer to IT. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5478), 405–406.

A journal article with 2 authors

Valbuzzi, A., & Yanofsky, C. (2001). Inhibition of the B. subtilis regulatory protein TRAP by the TRAP-inhibitory protein, AT. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5537), 2057–2059.

A journal article with 3 authors

Guo, F.-Q., Okamoto, M., & Crawford, N. M. (2003). Identification of a plant nitric oxide synthase gene involved in hormonal signaling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5642), 100–103.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Möller, P., Madland, D. G., Sierk, A. J., & Iwamoto, A. (2001). Nuclear fission modes and fragment mass asymmetries in a five-dimensional deformation space. Nature, 409(6822), 785–790.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maguire, L., & Smith, E. (2012). 30 Great Myths about Shakespeare. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Syme, D. (2007). Expert F# (A. Granicz & A. Cisternino, Eds.). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Harley, N. (2008). Medical Management of Acute Renal Failure. In S. Blakeley (Ed.), Renal Failure and Replacement Therapies (pp. 26–32). 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

Luntz, S. (2014, March 27). White Dwarf Stars Eat Their Planets. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/white-dwarf-stars-eat-their-planets/

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. (2004). Computer-Based Patient Records: Improved Planning and Project Management Are Critical to Achieving Two-Way VA-DOD Health Data Exchange (GAO-04-811T). 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

Hilker, B. (2010). Electric-field effects and interactions of dye-polymer systems [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

Johnson, G. (2015, June 23). Our Existentially Lucky Numbers. New York Times, D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zeilinger, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Valbuzzi & Yanofsky, 2001; Zeilinger, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Valbuzzi & Yanofsky, 2001)
Three authors: (Guo et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Möller et al., 2001)

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