How to format your references using the Journal of Cognitive Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 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

Torquato, S. (2000). Glass transition. Hard knock for thermodynamics. Nature, 405(6786), 521, 523.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vinson, V., & Pennisi, E. (2011). Synthetic biology. The allure of synthetic biology. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6047), 1235.

A journal article with 3 authors

Williams, C. C., Jan, C. H., & Weissman, J. S. (2014). Targeting and plasticity of mitochondrial proteins revealed by proximity-specific ribosome profiling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6210), 748–751.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Strecker, K. E., Partridge, G. B., Truscott, A. G., & Hulet, R. G. (2002). Formation and propagation of matter-wave soliton trains. Nature, 417(6885), 150–153.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sarisky, D. (2012). Scriptural Interpretation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lopes, L., Žilinskas, J., Costan, A., Cascella, R. G., Kecskemeti, G., Jeannot, E., Cannataro, M., Ricci, L., Benkner, S., Petit, S., Scarano, V., Gracia, J., Hunold, S., Scott, S. L., Lankes, S., Lengauer, C., Carretero, J., Breitbart, J., & Alexander, M. (Eds.). (2014). Euro-Par 2014: Parallel Processing Workshops: Euro-Par 2014 International Workshops, Porto, Portugal, August 25-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Part I (Vol. 8805). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Schweiger, H. F., & Peschl, G. (2007). Basic Concepts and Applications of Random Sets in Geotechnical Engineering. In D. V. Griffiths & G. A. Fenton (Eds.), Probabilistic Methods in Geotechnical Engineering (pp. 113–126). 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 Cognitive Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, July 4). Amazing Vine of Aurora Borealis As Seen By ISS. 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. (2011). Race to the Top: Characteristics of Grantees’ Amended Programs and Education’s Review Process (GAO-12-228R). 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

Moreau, G. A. (2009). Touch and psychotherapy: A journey to the depths of the unconscious and back again [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010, May 2). Clouds Part Long Enough For a Memorable Ride. New York Times, SP9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Torquato, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Torquato, 2000; Vinson & Pennisi, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Vinson & Pennisi, 2011)
Three authors: (Williams et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Strecker et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Cognitive Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Cogn. Psychol. (Hove)
ISSN (print)	2044-5911
ISSN (online)	2044-592X
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Experimental and Cognitive Psychology