How to format your references using the Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition. 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

Tachibana-Konwalski, K. (2015). Cell division: Hold on and let go. Nature, 517(7535), 441–442.

A journal article with 2 authors

Biju, S. D., & Bossuyt, F. (2003). New frog family from India reveals an ancient biogeographical link with the Seychelles. Nature, 425(6959), 711–714.

A journal article with 3 authors

Howarth, R. W., Ingraffea, A., & Engelder, T. (2011). Natural gas: Should fracking stop? Nature, 477(7364), 271–275.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Coursol, S., Fan, L.-M., Le Stunff, H., Spiegel, S., Gilroy, S., & Assmann, S. M. (2003). Sphingolipid signalling in Arabidopsis guard cells involves heterotrimeric G proteins. Nature, 423(6940), 651–654.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Delgado, R. L.-C., & Araki, M. (2006). Spoken, Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogue Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Barros, R. C. (2015). Automatic Design of Decision-Tree Induction Algorithms (A. C. P. L. F. de Carvalho & A. A. Freitas, Eds.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Katz, M., & Shaikovsky, I. (2011). Rich Input and Select Components. In I. Shaikovsky (Ed.), Practical RichFaces (pp. 95–132). Apress.

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 Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, June 6). Nemo’s Dad Should Have Become His Mom, And Other Lies Children’s Movies Told You. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/nemos-dad-should-have-become-his-mom-and-other-lies-childrens-movies-told-you/

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. (2015). EPA Science Advisory Panels: Preliminary Observations on the Processes for Providing Scientific Advice (GAO-15-636T). 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

Tarar, W. A. (2008). A New Finite Element Procedure for Fatigue Life Predictionand High Strain Rate Assessment of Cold Worked Advanced High Strength Steel [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Kelly, K. (1973, March 11). Marlo Thomas: “My Whole Life I’ve Had My Dukes Up.” New York Times, AL135.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tachibana-Konwalski, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Biju & Bossuyt, 2003; Tachibana-Konwalski, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Biju & Bossuyt, 2003)
Three authors: (Howarth et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Coursol et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition
Abbreviation	Laterality
ISSN (print)	1357-650X
ISSN (online)	1464-0678
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) General Medicine General Psychology