How to format your references using the Intelligence citation style

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

Smaglik, P. (2000). Varmus tells Congress to grasp thorny policy issues. Nature, 404(6778), 530.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rappuoli, R., & Dormitzer, P. R. (2012). Influenza: options to improve pandemic preparation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6088), 1531–1533.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fotso, H., Mikelsons, K., & Freericks, J. K. (2014). Thermalization of field driven quantum systems. Scientific Reports, 4, 4699.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chen, Y.-Y., Hsieh, C.-Y., Jayakumar, T., Lin, K.-H., Chou, D.-S., Lu, W.-J., Hsu, M.-J., & Sheu, J.-R. (2014). Andrographolide induces vascular smooth muscle cell apoptosis through a SHP-1-PP2A-p38MAPK-p53 cascade. Scientific Reports, 4, 5651.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maloberti, F. (2011). Understanding Microelectronics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Fox, E. A., Neuhold, E. J., Premsmit, P., & Wuwongse, V. (Eds.). (2005). Digital Libraries: Implementing Strategies and Sharing Experiences: 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2005, Bangkok, Thailand, December 12-15, 2005. Proceedings (Vol. 3815). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bou-Sleiman, S., & Ismail, M. (2012). RF Built-in-Self-Test. In M. Ismail (Ed.), Built-in-Self-Test and Digital Self-Calibration for RF SoCs (pp. 57–71). 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 Intelligence.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, March 23). How Testosterone And Oxytocin Hormones Interact In Male Work And Parenting Effort. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-testosterone-and-oxytocin-hormones-interact-male-work-and-parenting-effort/

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. (1992). Automated Patent System: Information on PTO’s Program to Automate Patent Information and Processes (T-IMTEC-92-19). 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

Garcia, R. I. (2009). Variable selection for models with missing data [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2012, June 25). New Pension Rules Seek Disclosure. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Rappuoli & Dormitzer, 2012; Smaglik, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Rappuoli & Dormitzer, 2012)
Three authors: (Fotso et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Chen et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Intelligence
Abbreviation	Intelligence
ISSN (print)	0160-2896
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Developmental and Educational Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology