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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Giardini, D. (2009). Geothermal quake risks must be faced. Nature, 462(7275), 848–849.

A journal article with 2 authors

Malone, J. H., & Michalak, P. (2008). Physiological sex predicts hybrid sterility regardless of genotype. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5859), 59.

A journal article with 3 authors

Qin, Z., Pugno, N. M., & Buehler, M. J. (2014). Mechanics of fragmentation of crocodile skin and other thin films. Scientific Reports, 4, 4966.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Yokoyama, Y., Esat, T. M., Thompson, W. G., Thomas, A. L., Webster, J. M., Miyairi, Y., Sawada, C., Aze, T., Matsuzaki, H., Okuno, J., Fallon, S., Braga, J.-C., Humblet, M., Iryu, Y., Potts, D. C., Fujita, K., Suzuki, A., & Kan, H. (2018). Rapid glaciation and a two-step sea level plunge into the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, 559(7715), 603–607.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown, T., Andrews, G. J., Cummins, S., Greenhough, B., Lewis, D., & Power, A. (2017). Health Geographies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Schwartz, R. A., Byrne, J. A., & Colaninno, A. (Eds.). (2006). Electronic vs. Floor Based Trading. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Jakovác, A., & Patkós, A. (2016). Optimized Perturbation Theory. In A. Patkós (Ed.), Resummation and Renormalization in Effective Theories of Particle Physics (pp. 69–95). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, March 23). Women Still Find It Tough To Reach The Top In Science. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/women-still-find-it-tough-reach-top-science/

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. (2004). Informing Our Nation: Improving How to Understand and Assess the USA’s Position and Progress (GAO-05-1). 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

Graeter, C. J. (2012). Longitudinal Study of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Subjects in the American Clinical Trial of Enzyme Potentiated Desensitization [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, July 27). Imperfections. New York Times, C9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Giardini, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Giardini, 2009; Malone & Michalak, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Malone & Michalak, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Yokoyama et al., 2018)

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