How to format your references using the Cortex citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cortex. 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	Download the output style file
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

Service, R. F. (2000). MATERIALS SCIENCE: New Tigers in the Fuel Cell Tank. Science (New York, N.Y.), 288(5473), 1955–1957.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore, E. B., & Molinero, V. (2011). Structural transformation in supercooled water controls the crystallization rate of ice. Nature, 479(7374), 506–508.

A journal article with 3 authors

Acquisti, C., Kleffe, J., & Collins, S. (2007). Oxygen content of transmembrane proteins over macroevolutionary time scales. Nature, 445(7123), 47–52.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wu, J., Zou, R., Wang, Q., Xue, Y., Wei, P., Yang, S., Wu, J., & Tian, H. (2014). A peptide probe for the detection of neurokinin-1 receptor by disaggregation enhanced fluorescence and magnetic resonance signals. Scientific Reports, 4, 6487.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, V. (2012). Toni Morrison. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Spink, A., & Cole, C. (Eds.). (2006). New Directions in Human Information Behavior (Vol. 8). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Reinhartz-Berger, I. (2013). When Aspect-Orientation Meets Software Product Line Engineering. In I. Reinhartz-Berger, A. Sturm, T. Clark, S. Cohen, & J. Bettin (Eds.), Domain Engineering: Product Lines, Languages, and Conceptual Models (pp. 83–111). 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 Cortex.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, September 26). Riding A Roller Coaster Can Help Get Rid Of Kidney Stones. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/riding-roller-coaster-can-help-get-rid-kidney-stones/

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. (1988). Bridge Condition Assessment: Inaccurate Data May Cause Inequities in the Apportionment of Federal-Aid Funds (RCED-88-75). 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

Heyen, C. (2015). Two predictors of smoking behaviors in the LGBTQ population: Anxiety and internalized homophobia [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Herskovic, L. (2017, June 23). Who’s That Cat? New York Times, A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Service, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Moore & Molinero, 2011; Service, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Moore & Molinero, 2011)
Three authors: (Acquisti et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Wu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cortex
Abbreviation	Cortex
ISSN (print)	0010-9452
Scope	Cognitive Neuroscience Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology