How to format your references using the Neuropsychologia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neuropsychologia. 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	Download the output style file
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

Moreno, E., 2014. Cancer: Darwinian tumour suppression. Nature 509, 435–436.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pueyo, S., Jovani, R., 2006. Comment on “A keystone mutualism drives pattern in a power function.” Science 313, 1739; author reply 1739.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tex, D.M., Kamiya, I., Kanemitsu, Y., 2014. Control of hot-carrier relaxation for realizing ideal quantum-dot intermediate-band solar cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 4125.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Scully, M.O., Zubairy, M.S., Agarwal, G.S., Walther, H., 2003. Extracting work from a single heat bath via vanishing quantum coherence. Science 299, 862–864.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rasch, D., Schott, D., 2015. Mathematische Statistik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Sehoole, C., Knight, J. (Eds.), 2013. Internationalisation of African Higher Education: Towards Achieving the MDGs, Global Perspectives on Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Ranji, M., Hadaegh, A.R., 2009. Comprehensive Genetic Database of Expressed Sequence Tags for Coccolithophorids, in: Ao, S.-I., Rieger, B., Chen, S.-S. (Eds.), Advances in Computational Algorithms and Data Analysis, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 51–64.

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 Neuropsychologia.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2017. Wolves Hunt Less When Living Alongside Bears [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wolves-hunt-less-when-living-alongside-bears/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1992. High Risk Series: Guaranteed Student Loans (No. HR-93-2). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Stroud, M., 2012. Solar desalination in the southwest United States: A thermoeconomic analysis utilizing the sun to desalt water in high irradiance regions (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Crow, K., 2001. Singed From the Attack, Trees Find a Safer Home. New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moreno, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Moreno, 2014; Pueyo and Jovani, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Pueyo and Jovani, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Scully et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neuropsychologia
Abbreviation	Neuropsychologia
ISSN (print)	0028-3932
Scope	Behavioral Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Experimental and Cognitive Psychology