How to format your references using the Computational Cognitive Science citation style

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

Gershon, D. (2000). Collaborations prepare to untangle the circuitry of the brain. Nature, 406(6795), 545–546.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gulden, F. O., & Šestan, N. (2014). Neurobiology: building a bigger brain. Nature, 515(7526), 206–207.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gebelein, B., McKay, D. J., & Mann, R. S. (2004). Direct integration of Hox and segmentation gene inputs during Drosophila development. Nature, 431(7009), 653–659.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Guarani, V., Deflorian, G., Franco, C. A., Krüger, M., Phng, L.-K., Bentley, K., et al. (2011). Acetylation-dependent regulation of endothelial Notch signalling by the SIRT1 deacetylase. Nature, 473(7346), 234–238.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wiens, J. A. (2016). Ecological Challenges and Conservation Conundrums. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Sebastiano, F. (2013). Mobility-based Time References for Wireless Sensor Networks. (L. J. Breems & K. A. A. Makinwa, Eds.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Post, W. (2014). Wheel brakes. In K. Reif (Ed.), Brakes, Brake Control and Driver Assistance Systems: Function, Regulation and Components (pp. 56–73). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

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 Computational Cognitive Science.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, March 23). The USSR Tried To Cover Up One Of The World’s Deadliest Nuclear Fallout Sites. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-ussr-tried-to-cover-up-one-of-the-worlds-deadliest-nuclear-fallout-sites-/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2003). University Research: Most Federal Agencies Need to Better Protect against Financial Conflicts of Interest (No. GAO-04-31). Washington, DC: 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

Underwood, V. L. (2010). The effect of guided reading instruction on reading achievement (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Oestreich, J. R. (2016, November 10). Juilliard’s Fast Takes on French Baroque. New York Times, p. C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon 2000; Gulden and Šestan 2014).

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

Two authors: (Gulden and Šestan 2014)
Three or more authors: (Guarani et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computational Cognitive Science
Abbreviation	Comput. Cogn. Sci.
ISSN (online)	2195-3961
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