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

McCammon, C. (2005). Geochemistry. The paradox of mantle redox. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5723), 807–808.

A journal article with 2 authors

Atatüre, M., & Morton, J. J. L. (2014). Quantum information. A gem of a quantum teleporter. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6196), 510–511.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu, W., Wen, X., & Wang, Z. L. (2013). Taxel-addressable matrix of vertical-nanowire piezotronic transistors for active and adaptive tactile imaging. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6135), 952–957.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, Q., He, D., Peng, F., Lei, L., Liu, P., Yin, S., Wang, P., Xu, C., & Liu, J. (2014). Unusual compression behavior of nanocrystalline CeO₂. Scientific Reports, 4, 4441.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El-Haik, B. S. (2005). Axiomatic Quality. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hall, R. (Ed.). (2012). Handbook of Healthcare System Scheduling (Vol. 168). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, X., & Mao, Y. (2016). Graphs with Given Generalized Connectivity. In Y. Mao (Ed.), Generalized Connectivity of Graphs (pp. 59–66). 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

Andrews, R. (2016, May 2). Hidden World Discovered Buried Beneath Antarctica. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/subglacial-antarctic-lake-full-microbial-cells-could-just-be-decades-old/

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. (1989). Special Education: The Attorney Fees Provision of Public Law 99-372 (HRD-90-22BR). 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

Luong, W. (2009). An identity building program for American-born children of Southeast Asian refugees [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

C. J. CHIVERS; Sophia Kishkovsky contributed reporting from Moscow for this article. (2004, June 24). Local Rebels Said to Join in Chechen Group’s Raids Across Border. New York Times, A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McCammon, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Atatüre & Morton, 2014; McCammon, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Atatüre & Morton, 2014)
Three authors: (Wu et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Wang 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