How to format your references using the Memory citation style

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

Graber, C. (2011). Aetiology: The path to disease. Nature, 480(7377), S54-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruokolainen, K., & Tuomisto, H. (2002). Beta-diversity in tropical forests. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5586), 1439; discussion 1439.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sakuragi, S., Tominaga-Yoshino, K., & Ogura, A. (2013). Involvement of TrkB- and p75(NTR)-signaling pathways in two contrasting forms of long-lasting synaptic plasticity. Scientific Reports, 3, 3185.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Zhou, Y. T., Xue, Y. B., Chen, D., Wang, Y. J., Zhang, B., & Ma, X. L. (2014). Atomic-scale configurations of synchroshear-induced deformation twins in the ionic MnS crystal. Scientific Reports, 4, 5118.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ventre, D. (2016). Information Warfare. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Grönlund, H.-E. (2012). iOS 6 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (C. Francis & S. Grimes, Eds.). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Braun, N., Cissée, R., & Albayrak, S. (2007). An Agent-Based Approach to User-Initiated Semantic Service Interconnection. In J. Huang, R. Kowalczyk, Z. Maamar, D. Martin, I. Müller, S. Stoutenburg, & K. P. Sycara (Eds.), Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering: AAMAS 2007 International Workshop, SOCASE 2007, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 14, 2007. Proceedings (pp. 49–62). Springer.

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 Memory.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, July 17). Scientists Teach Birds The “Language” Of Another Bird Species. 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. (2011). Highway Emergency Relief: Strengthened Oversight of Project Eligibility Decisions Needed (GAO-12-45). 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

Martinez, W. (2010). “Straight Talk” on preventing HIV program—a grant thesis project [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

Ryerson, J. (2016, November 18). University Presses. New York Times, BR35.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Graber, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Graber, 2011; Ruokolainen & Tuomisto, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Ruokolainen & Tuomisto, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Zhou et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Memory
Abbreviation	Memory
ISSN (print)	0965-8211
ISSN (online)	1464-0686
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) General Psychology