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

Schork, N. J. (2015). Personalized medicine: Time for one-person trials. Nature, 520(7549), 609–611.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hogan, B. M., & Black, B. L. (2015). Developmental biology: Diversity in the lymphatic vasculature. Nature, 522(7554), 37–38.

A journal article with 3 authors

Del Toro-De León, G., García-Aguilar, M., & Gillmor, C. S. (2014). Non-equivalent contributions of maternal and paternal genomes to early plant embryogenesis. Nature, 514(7524), 624–627.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Zhuang, J., Chen, X., Tan, Z., Zhu, Y., Zhao, K., & Yang, J. (2014). A novel de novo duplication mutation of PAX6 in a Chinese family with aniridia and other ocular abnormalities. Scientific Reports, 4, 4836.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huddleston, R. (2010). Android® Fully Loaded. Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Schaller, B. J. (Ed.). (2007). Imaging of Carotid Artery Stenosis. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Burkhardt, C. E., & Leventhal, J. J. (2008). Time-Dependent States in One Dimension. In J. J. Leventhal (Ed.), Foundations of Quantum Physics (pp. 1–29). 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

Andrews, R. (2017, March 2). Oklahoma Is One Of 2017’s Most High-Risk State For Earthquakes. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/fracking-has-made-oklahoma-2017s-most-highrisk-state-for-earthquakes/

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. (2012). Charter Schools: Additional Federal Attention Needed to Help Protect Access for Students with Disabilities (GAO-12-543). 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

Tripamer, A. J. (2013). Teacher Perceptions of Teacher Evaluations in the Fort Zumwalt School District [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Vecsey, G. (2010, January 5). Football Culture Keeps Some In the Dark. New York Times, B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schork, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hogan & Black, 2015; Schork, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hogan & Black, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Zhuang et al., 2014)

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