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

Coontz, R. (2012). Mysteries of astronomy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6085), 1090.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cloetingh, S., & Haq, B. U. (2015). Sea level change. Inherited landscapes and sea level change. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6220), 1258375.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jeffrey, J. L., Terrett, J. A., & MacMillan, D. W. C. (2015). O-H hydrogen bonding promotes H-atom transfer from α C-H bonds for C-alkylation of alcohols. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6255), 1532–1536.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lee, X., Goulden, M. L., Hollinger, D. Y., Barr, A., Black, T. A., Bohrer, G., Bracho, R., Drake, B., Goldstein, A., Gu, L., Katul, G., Kolb, T., Law, B. E., Margolis, H., Meyers, T., Monson, R., Munger, W., Oren, R., Paw U, K. T., … Zhao, L. (2011). Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes. Nature, 479(7373), 384–387.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Held, G. (2005). Virtual Private Networking. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Madsen, S. J. (Ed.). (2013). Optical Methods and Instrumentation in Brain Imaging and Therapy (Vol. 3). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Qasim, M., Hasan, O., Elleuch, M., & Tahar, S. (2016). Formalization of Normal Random Variables in HOL. In M. Kohlhase, M. Johansson, B. Miller, L. de Moura, & F. Tompa (Eds.), Intelligent Computer Mathematics: 9th International Conference, CICM 2016, Bialystok, Poland, July 25-29, 2016, Proceedings (pp. 44–59). 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 Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, July 7). 14 Surprising Psychological Reasons Someone Might Fall In Love With You. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1996). NASA’s Clipperton Project (NSIAD-96-90R). 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

Harvey, T. (2014). The Box [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, February 6). ‘24’ Reboot Has a Dire Ring to It. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coontz, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Cloetingh & Haq, 2015; Coontz, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Cloetingh & Haq, 2015)
Three authors: (Jeffrey et al., 2015)
6 or more authors: (Lee et al., 2011)

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