How to format your references using the Consciousness and Cognition citation style

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

Jia, H. (2015). Alliances for scientific success. Nature, 528(7582), S187-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shohat, S., & Shifman, S. (2014). Bias towards large genes in autism. Nature, 512(7512), E1-2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palmer, M. J., Fukuyama, F., & Relman, D. A. (2015). SCIENCE GOVERNANCE. A more systematic approach to biological risk. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6267), 1471–1473.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Gao, Y.-G., Selmer, M., Dunham, C. M., Weixlbaumer, A., Kelley, A. C., & Ramakrishnan, V. (2009). The structure of the ribosome with elongation factor G trapped in the posttranslocational state. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5953), 694–699.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vignes, A. (2013). Extractive Metallurgy 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Moreno, A. (2015). Biological Autonomy: A Philosophical and Theoretical Enquiry (M. Mossio, Ed.; Vol. 12). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Held, L., & Sabanés Bové, D. (2014). Frequentist Properties of the Likelihood. In D. Sabanés Bové (Ed.), Applied Statistical Inference: Likelihood and Bayes (pp. 79–122). 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 Consciousness and Cognition.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, September 24). Common Misconceptions About Global Warming. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2016). Transportation Security: Status of GAO Recommendations on TSA’s Security-Related Technology Acquisitions (GAO-16-176). 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

Leung, R. (2014). The Effect of Mission Assurance on ELV Launch Success Rate: An Analysis of Two Management Systems for Launch Vehicles [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Southall, A. (2016, June 20). Brownsville Residents Seek Answers After a Mentally Ill Ex-Convict Is Fatally Shot. New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jia, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Jia, 2015; Shohat & Shifman, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Shohat & Shifman, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Gao et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Consciousness and Cognition
Abbreviation	Conscious. Cogn.
ISSN (print)	1053-8100
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Developmental and Educational Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology