How to format your references using the Metacognition and Learning citation style

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

Farr, N. L. (2000). Questioning placebo controls. Science (New York, N.Y.), 288(5472), 1747c.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruprecht, P., & Plank, T. (2013). Feeding andesitic eruptions with a high-speed connection from the mantle. Nature, 500(7460), 68–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jones, M. H., Bewsher, D., & Brown, D. S. (2013). Imaging of a circumsolar dust ring near the orbit of Venus. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6161), 960–963.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pan, D., Kobayashi, A., Jiang, P., Ferrari de Andrade, L., Tay, R. E., Luoma, A. M., et al. (2018). A major chromatin regulator determines resistance of tumor cells to T cell-mediated killing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 359(6377), 770–775.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kulkarni, S., & Harman, G. (2011). An Elementary Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory: Kulkarni/Statistical Learning Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Peccati, G., & Reitzner, M. (Eds.). (2016). Stochastic Analysis for Poisson Point Processes: Malliavin Calculus, Wiener-Itô Chaos Expansions and Stochastic Geometry (Vol. 7). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

De Cauwer, M., & O’Sullivan, B. (2013). A Study of Electricity Price Features on Distributed Internet Data Centers. In J. Altmann, K. Vanmechelen, & O. F. Rana (Eds.), Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services: 10th International Conference, GECON 2013, Zaragoza, Spain, September 18-20, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 60–73). Cham: 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 Metacognition and Learning.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2015, October 21). How Well Did Back To The Future Predict Our Lives In 2015? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/did-back-future-ii-actually-predict-world-2015/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2009). Information Technology: Management and Oversight of Projects Totaling Billions of Dollars Need Attention (No. GAO-09-624T). Washington, DC: 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

Decker, K. M. (2013). A study of relationships between counselor education, social justice advocacy competence, and likelihood to advocate (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Sisario, B. (2016, December 12). ‘Hamilton Mixtape’ No. 1 on Chart. New York Times, p. C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Farr 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Farr 2000; Ruprecht and Plank 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ruprecht and Plank 2013)
Three or more authors: (Pan et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Metacognition and Learning
Abbreviation	Metacogn. Learn.
ISSN (print)	1556-1623
ISSN (online)	1556-1631
Scope	Education