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

Mesot, J., 2006. Applied physics. The neutron spin-echo technique at full strength. Science 312, 1888–1889.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ammerman, A.J., McClennen, C.E., 2000. URBAN ECOLOGY: Saving Venice. Science 289, 1301–1302.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wong, C.P., Luo, S., Zhang, Z., 2000. MICROELECTRONICS: Flip the Chip. Science 290, 2269–2270.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Leaver, M., Domínguez-Cuevas, P., Coxhead, J.M., Daniel, R.A., Errington, J., 2009. Life without a wall or division machine in Bacillus subtilis. Nature 457, 849–853.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vignes, A., 2013. Extractive Metallurgy 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Nührenbörger, M., 2016. Design Science and Its Importance in the German Mathematics Educational Discussion, ICME-13 Topical Surveys. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Summers, J.A., 2014. The Sclera and Its Role in Regulation of the Refractive State, in: Spaide, R.F., Ohno-Matsui, K., Yannuzzi, L.A. (Eds.), Pathologic Myopia. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 59–74.

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

Hale, T., 2016. You Can Now Listen To A Song That Hasn’t Been Played For 1,000 Years [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/listen-song-which-hadnt-been-played-1000-years/ (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, 2012. Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle: DOD Is Addressing Knowledge Gaps in Its New Acquisition Strategy [Reissued on August 13, 2012] (No. GAO-12-822). 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

Phongprasert, A.V., 2010. MSW students’ perceived knowledge and perceptions of effectiveness of the child welfare system (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Steinhauer, J., 2017. Wounded Lawmaker Is Baseball Fan With ‘Soft-Glove Approach’ in House. New York Times A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mesot, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Ammerman and McClennen, 2000; Mesot, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Ammerman and McClennen, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Leaver et al., 2009)

About the journal

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