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

Friedman, J. (2014). Douglas Coleman (1931-2014). Nature, 509(7502), 564.

A journal article with 2 authors

Longo, V. D., & Finch, C. E. (2003). Evolutionary medicine: from dwarf model systems to healthy centenarians? Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5611), 1342–1346.

A journal article with 3 authors

Newell, R. G., Pizer, W. A., & Raimi, D. (2014). Environmental economics. Carbon market lessons and global policy outlook. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6177), 1316–1317.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kim, W., Zhu, W., Hendricks, G. L., Van Tyne, D., Steele, A. D., Keohane, C. E., Fricke, N., Conery, A. L., Shen, S., Pan, W., Lee, K., Rajamuthiah, R., Fuchs, B. B., Vlahovska, P. M., Wuest, W. M., Gilmore, M. S., Gao, H., Ausubel, F. M., & Mylonakis, E. (2018). A new class of synthetic retinoid antibiotics effective against bacterial persisters. Nature, 556(7699), 103–107.

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

Klein, J. (2013). Solitude of a Humble Genius - Gregor Johann Mendel: Volume 1: Formative Years (N. Klein, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Fanara, A., Haines, E., & Howard, A. (2009). The State of Energy and Performance Benchmarking for Enterprise Servers. In R. Nambiar & M. Poess (Eds.), Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking: First TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2009, Lyon, France, August 24-28, 2009, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 52–66). 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. (2016, May 26). Extremely Rare Grizzly-Polar Bear Hybrid Shot In Canadian Arctic. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/extremely-rare-grizzly-polar-bear-hybrid-shot-canadian-arctic/

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. (1993). Planning for Education Standards (PEMD-93-21R). 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

Claar, P. L. (2017). A Correlational Study Comparing the Relationship between School Leader Intercultural Development, Selected Demographic Variables, and Student Achievement [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Hubbard, B., & Schmitt, E. (2017, July 21). Saudi Official Who Fell From View Is Promoted. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Friedman, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Friedman, 2014; Longo & Finch, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Longo & Finch, 2003)
Three authors: (Newell et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Kim et al., 2018)

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