How to format your references using the Cognitive Research citation style

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

Chiang Y-M. Materials science. Building a better battery. Science. 2010 Dec 10;330(6010):1485–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hale MS, Rivkin RB. Comment on “Nature of phosphorus limitation in the ultraoligotrophic eastern Mediterranean.” Science. 2006 Jun 23;312(5781):1748; author reply 1748.

A journal article with 3 authors

Adams EJ, Chien Y-H, Garcia KC. Structure of a gammadelta T cell receptor in complex with the nonclassical MHC T22. Science. 2005 Apr 8;308(5719):227–31.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ohtsuki H, Hauert C, Lieberman E, Nowak MA. A simple rule for the evolution of cooperation on graphs and social networks. Nature. 2006 May 25;441(7092):502–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henriksen RN. Scale Invariance. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2015.

An edited book

Mander WJ, Panagakou S, editors. British Idealism and the Concept of the Self. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Vafadar S, Abdollahzadeh Barfourosh A. Towards Requirement Analysis Pattern for Learning Agents. In: Weyns D, Gleizes M-P, editors. Agent-Oriented Software Engineering XI: 11th International Workshop, AOSE 2010, Toronto, Canada, May 10-11, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 79–90.

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 Research.

Blog post

Taub B. Addictions Can Be Detected In The Brain Even After Death [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/addiction-can-detected-brain-even-after-death/

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. Technology Development: Future Use of NASA’s Large Format Camera Is Uncertain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Jun. Report No.: NSIAD-90-142.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Rossi G. Anesthesiology, geriatric surgery, and the risk of post-operative cognitive dysfunction [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Eligon J. Minneapolis Grapples With a Community Being Left Behind. New York Times. 2016 Jan 11;A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chiang 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Chiang 2010; Hale and Rivkin 2006).

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

Two authors: (Hale and Rivkin 2006)
Three or more authors: (Ohtsuki et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cognitive Research
Abbreviation	Cogn. Res. Princ. Implic.
ISSN (online)	2365-7464
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