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

Coscia, M. (2014). Average is boring: how similarity kills a meme’s success. Scientific Reports, 4, 6477.

A journal article with 2 authors

Radisky, D. C., & Bissell, M. J. (2004). Cancer. Respect thy neighbor! Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5659), 775–777.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barber, V. A., Juday, G. P., & Finney, B. P. (2000). Reduced growth of Alaskan white spruce in the twentieth century from temperature-induced drought stress. Nature, 405(6787), 668–673.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Cohen, I., Navarro, V., Clemenceau, S., Baulac, M., & Miles, R. (2002). On the origin of interictal activity in human temporal lobe epilepsy in vitro. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5597), 1418–1421.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cerroni, L., Gatter, K., & Kerl, H. (2009). Skin Lymphoma: The Illustrated Guide. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Agresti, A., & Meng, X.-L. (Eds.). (2013). Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jakushokas, R., Popovich, M., Mezhiba, A. V., Köse, S., & Friedman, E. G. (2011). Electromigration. In M. Popovich, A. V. Mezhiba, S. Köse, & E. G. Friedman (Eds.), Power Distribution Networks with On-Chip Decoupling Capacitors (pp. 71–87). 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

Taub, B. (2016, December 9). More American Grandparents Are Using Marijuana Than Ever Before. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/more-american-grandparents-using-marijuana-ever-before/

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. (2003). Information Technology: Leadership Remains Key to Agencies Making Progress on Enterprise Architecture Efforts (GAO-04-40). 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

Robertson, O. (2014). Gender and Crew Resource Management: A Phenomenological Qualitative Study [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Goodman, P. S., & Kanter, J. (2016, October 21). Globalization Grinds to a Halt. 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 (Coscia, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Coscia, 2014; Radisky & Bissell, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Radisky & Bissell, 2004)
Three authors: (Barber et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Cohen et al., 2002)

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