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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Contreras, J. L. (2010). Information access. Prepublication data release, latency, and genome commons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5990), 393–394.

A journal article with 2 authors

Strong, M., & Church, G. (2007). Gem of an idea for a unique machine. Nature, 447(7140), 112.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moles, A., Kieffer, B. L., & D’Amato, F. R. (2004). Deficit in attachment behavior in mice lacking the mu-opioid receptor gene. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5679), 1983–1986.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Eilenberger, F., Kabakova, I. V., de Sterke, C. M., Eggleton, B. J., & Pertsch, T. (2013). Cavity Optical Pulse Extraction: ultra-short pulse generation as seeded Hawking radiation. Scientific reports, 3, 2607.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Colloms, M., & Darlington, P. (2005). High Performance Loudspeakers. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.

An edited book

Scott, J. E. (2011). Expert Oracle Application Express. (S. Kennedy, D. Aust, D. Kubicek, M. G. D’Souza, R. Mattamal, D. Gault, et al., Eds.). Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Weismayer, C., Pezenka, I., & Loibl, W. (2016). Automated Hyperlink Text Analysis of City Websites: Projected Image Representation on the Web. In A. Inversini & R. Schegg (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2016: Proceedings of the International Conference in Bilbao, Spain, February 2-5, 2016 (pp. 59–72). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, D. (2016, July 6). Ice And Speed, The Drugs That Kept Soldiers Awake And A President Young. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ice-and-speed-the-drugs-that-kept-soldiers-awake-and-a-president-young/. 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. (1990). Biotechnology: Processing Delays Continue for Growing Backlog of Patent Applications (No. RCED-90-231). 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

Kerr, A. B. (2012). Exploring relationship awareness in organizational change using the Strength Deployment Inventory (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, August 17). Whitney: Can I Be Me. New York Times, p. C9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Contreras 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Contreras 2010; Strong and Church 2007).

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

Two authors: (Strong and Church 2007)
Three or more authors: (Eilenberger et al. 2013)

About the journal

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