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

Smith A. Life beyond the walls. Nature. 2002 Feb 7;415(6872):7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burgoyne CB, Lea SEG. Psychology. Money is material. Science. 2006 Nov 17;314(5802):1091–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shi Y, Evans JE, Rock KL. Molecular identification of a danger signal that alerts the immune system to dying cells. Nature. 2003 Oct 2;425(6957):516–21.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

De K, Kasliwal MM, Ofek EO, Moriya TJ, Burke J, Cao Y, et al. A hot and fast ultra-stripped supernova that likely formed a compact neutron star binary. Science. 2018 Oct 12;362(6411):201–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Waine C. Obesity and Weight Management in Primary Care. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Guveli A. Intergenerational Consequences of Migration: Socio-economic, Family and Cultural Patterns of Stability and Change in Turkey and Europe. Ganzeboom HBG, Platt L, Nauck B, Baykara-Krumme H, Eroğlu Ş, Bayrakdar S, et al., editors. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Stefanoiu D, Ionescu F. Fuzzy-Statistical Reasoning in Fault Diagnosis. In: Palade V, Jain L, Bocaniala CD, editors. Computational Intelligence in Fault Diagnosis. London: Springer; 2006. p. 125–77.

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

Andrew E. Why haven’t we encountered aliens yet? The answer could be climate change [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-haven’t-we-encountered-aliens-yet-answer-could-be-climate-change/

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. Information Technology: Federal Agencies Need to Address Aging Legacy Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 May. Report No.: GAO-16-468.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Williamson KM. The effects of communist policies, the democratic transition, and EU accession on gender equality in Germany and the Czech Republic [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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

Dorman JL. Hot Steaks With a Cool Vibe. New York Times. 2016 Nov 11;TR11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Burgoyne and Lea 2006; Smith 2002).

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

Two authors: (Burgoyne and Lea 2006)
Three or more authors: (De et al. 2018)

About the journal

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