How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Buckingham, S. (2003). Bioinformatics: programmed for success. Nature, 425(6954), 209–215.

A journal article with 2 authors

Balafoutas, L., & Sutter, M. (2012). Affirmative action policies promote women and do not harm efficiency in the laboratory. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6068), 579–582.

A journal article with 3 authors

McGuire, J. J., Boettcher, M. S., & Jordan, T. H. (2005). Foreshock sequences and short-term earthquake predictability on East Pacific Rise transform faults. Nature, 434(7032), 457–461.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhu, Y., Zhu, L.-N., Guo, R., Cui, H.-J., Ye, S., & Fang, Q. (2014). Nanoliter-scale protein crystallization and screening with a microfluidic droplet robot. Scientific Reports, 4, 5046.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cauvin, C., Escobar, F., & Serradj, A. (2010). Cartography and the Impact of the Quantitative Revolution. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bestak, R., Kencl, L., Li, L. E., Widmer, J., & Yin, H. (Eds.). (2012). NETWORKING 2012: 11th International IFIP TC 6 Networking Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, May 21-25, 2012, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 7290). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Graziottin, A., & Murina, F. (2011). Vulvodinia: che cosa dicono le donne? In F. Murina (Ed.), Vulvodinia: Strategie di diagnosi e cura (pp. 29–36). 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 Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, August 27). No, The CDC Is Not Covering Up Evidence That Vaccines Cause Autism. 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. (1981). A Bibliography of Documents Issued by the GAO on Matters Related to: ADP (AFMD-81-85). 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

Koyanagi, T. (2017). Design and Synthesis of Archaea-Inspired Tetraether Lipids [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego.

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

Schwartz, J. (2016, October 7). A Hurricane That’s Hard to Predict, Even for a Veteran Storm Watcher. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buckingham, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Balafoutas & Sutter, 2012; Buckingham, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Balafoutas & Sutter, 2012)
Three authors: (McGuire et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Zhu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Res. Mem. Cogn.
ISSN (print)	2211-3681
Scope

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