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 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

Blow, N. (2009). Systems biology: Untangling the protein web. Nature, 460(7253), 415–418.

A journal article with 2 authors

Parmesan, C., & Yohe, G. (2003). A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems. Nature, 421(6918), 37–42.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song, T.-R. A., Helmberger, D. V., & Grand, S. P. (2004). Low-velocity zone atop the 410-km seismic discontinuity in the northwestern United States. Nature, 427(6974), 530–533.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Al-Olayan, E. M., Beetsma, A. L., Butcher, G. A., Sinden, R. E., & Hurd, H. (2002). Complete development of mosquito phases of the malaria parasite in vitro. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5555), 677–679.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sexton, D. (2008). Trump University Branding 101. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Buck, T., Franke, A., & Monaghan, M. J. (Eds.). (2011). Three-dimensional Echocardiography. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jensen, K., & Kühl, O. (2009). Towards a Model of Musical Chunks. In S. Ystad, R. Kronland-Martinet, & K. Jensen (Eds.), Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Genesis of Meaning in Sound and Music: 5th International Symposium, CMMR 2008 Copenhagen, Denmark, May 19-23, 2008 Revised Papers (pp. 81–92). 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 27). Avian Malaria Wipes Out UK Zoo’s Entire Colony Of Penguins. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/avian-malaria-wipes-out-uk-zoos-entire-colony-of-penguins/

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. (1978). Office of Telecommunications Policy’s Contract for a Publication on Intercepting Electronic Communications (LCD-78-110). 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

Scuderi, N. F. (2010). Servant leadership and transformational leadership in church organizations [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

Greenhouse, L. (2005, November 8). JUSTICES TO RULE ON A CHALLENGE TO U.S. TRIBUNALS. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blow, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Blow, 2009; Parmesan & Yohe, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Parmesan & Yohe, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Al-Olayan et al., 2002)

About the journal

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