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

Turnpenny, L. (2009). Journal club. A stem-cell researcher considers an accusation of dullness. Nature, 459(7244), 143.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vargas-Rodriguez, O., & Musier-Forsyth, K. (2014). Structural biology: wobble puts RNA on target. Nature, 510(7506), 480–481.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao, Y., Samal, E., & Srivastava, D. (2005). Serum response factor regulates a muscle-specific microRNA that targets Hand2 during cardiogenesis. Nature, 436(7048), 214–220.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tan, Y., Zhang, S., Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., & Liu, N. (2013). Response of microchip solid-state laser to external frequency-shifted feedback and its applications. Scientific reports, 3, 2912.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dosil, J. (2008). Eating Disorders in Athletes. Chichester, West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Fegan, J., & Field, M. H. (Eds.). (2009). Education Across Borders: Politics, Policy and Legislative Action. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Krč, J., Lipovšek, B., & Topič, M. (2012). Light Management in Thin-Film Solar Cell. In A. B. Cristóbal López, A. Martí Vega, & A. Luque López (Eds.), Next Generation of Photovoltaics: New Concepts (pp. 95–129). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Computational Cognitive Science.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, October 12). Human Doctors Are Still Better Than Online Symptom Checkers. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/human-doctors-are-still-better-than-online-symptom-checkers/. 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. (2014). Surface Transportation: Actions Needed to Improve Documentation of Key Decisions in the TIGER Discretionary Grant Program (No. GAO-14-628R). 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

Bergemann, E. (2009). Exploring psychotherapist empathic attunement from a psychoneurobiological perspective: Is empathy enhanced by yoga and meditation? (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Kanter, J. (2017, February 3). Europe’s Leaders Aim to Slow Migration on Dangerous Sea Route From Africa. New York Times, p. A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Turnpenny 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Turnpenny 2009; Vargas-Rodriguez and Musier-Forsyth 2014).

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

Two authors: (Vargas-Rodriguez and Musier-Forsyth 2014)
Three or more authors: (Tan et al. 2013)

About the journal

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