How to format your references using the Language and Cognitive Processes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Language and Cognitive Processes. 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

Yoho, R. (2015). How science fairs shaped my career. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6255), 1578.

A journal article with 2 authors

Finkel, T., & Holbrook, N. J. (2000). Oxidants, oxidative stress and the biology of ageing. Nature, 408(6809), 239–247.

A journal article with 3 authors

Atwood, J. L., Barbour, L. J., & Jerga, A. (2002). Storage of methane and freon by interstitial van der Waals confinement. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5577), 2367–2369.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Krumholz, A., Shcherbakova, D. M., Xia, J., Wang, L. V., & Verkhusha, V. V. (2014). Multicontrast photoacoustic in vivo imaging using near-infrared fluorescent proteins. Scientific Reports, 4, 3939.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris, A. S. (2006). ISO 14000 Environmental Management Standards. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Harcourt, W. (Ed.). (2016). The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development: Critical Engagements in Feminist Theory and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Borsdorf, A., & Stadel, C. (2015). Ethnic and Demographic Structures and Processes. In C. Stadel (Ed.), The Andes: A Geographical Portrait (pp. 133–154). Springer International Publishing.

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 Language and Cognitive Processes.

Blog post

Carpineti, C. (2017, March 7). One Of The World’s Rarest And Most Elusive Whales Has Been Captured On Camera For The First Time. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/one-of-the-worlds-rarest-and-most-elusive-whales-has-been-captured-on-camera-for-the-first-time/

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. (1997). Tax Systems Modernization: IRS Needs to Resolve Certain Issues With Its Integrated Case Processing System (GGD/AIMD-97-31). 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

Igualada, M. O. (2015). The beliefs of advanced placement teachers regarding equity and access to advanced placement courses: A mixed-methods study [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida Atlantic 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

David Goodman, J. (2015, September 3). Tears and Anger in Queens After Mother Loses Another Son to Violence. New York Times, A26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yoho, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Finkel & Holbrook, 2000; Yoho, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Finkel & Holbrook, 2000)
Three authors: (Atwood et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Krumholz et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Language and Cognitive Processes
Abbreviation	Lang. Cogn. Process.
ISSN (print)	0169-0965
ISSN (online)	1464-0732
Scope	Language and Linguistics Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Education Linguistics and Language