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

Servick, K. (2014). Top heart lab comes under fire. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6194), 254.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carter, R. M., & Gammon, P. (2004). New Zealand maritime glaciation: millennial-scale southern climate change since 3.9 Ma. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5677), 1659–1662.

A journal article with 3 authors

Parsons, T., Ji, C., & Kirby, E. (2008). Stress changes from the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and increased hazard in the Sichuan basin. Nature, 454(7203), 509–510.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Peng, C., Yang, J., Zheng, Y., Xu, Z., & Jiang, X. (2014). Early magnitude estimation for the MW7.9 Wenchuan earthquake using progressively expanded P-wave time window. Scientific Reports, 4, 6770.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Parke, R. D. (2013). Future Families. John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Seiler, F., & Igra, O. (Eds.). (2016). Hypervelocity Launchers (1st ed. 2016, Vol. 10). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

van der Lans, A. (2013). Business Process Management (BPM): The Information Loop. In P. Baan (Ed.), Enterprise Information Management: When Information Becomes Inspiration (pp. 101–123). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, August 11). What Does Australia’s New 2030 Climate Target Mean For The Local Coal Industry? 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). Social Security Offsets: Improvements to Program Design Could Better Assist Older Student Loan Borrowers with Obtaining Permitted Relief (GAO-17-45). 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

Farhad, K. (2015). Development of a web-based educational resource on the most effective micronutrients in the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Hyduk, J. (2016, October 25). Looking to Take a City Where Grubb and Speed Never Did. New York Times, B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Servick, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Carter & Gammon, 2004; Servick, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Carter & Gammon, 2004)
Three authors: (Parsons et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Peng 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