How to format your references using the Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences citation style

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

Kupferschmidt, K. (2015). Global health. Report prescribes strong medicine for WHO. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6245), 223–224.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lyon, B. E., & Eadie, J. M. (2004). An obligate brood parasite trapped in the intraspecific arms race of its hosts. Nature, 432(7015), 390–393.

A journal article with 3 authors

Friedberg, E. C., Wagner, R., & Radman, M. (2002). Specialized DNA polymerases, cellular survival, and the genesis of mutations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5573), 1627–1630.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bonasio, R., Zhang, G., Ye, C., Mutti, N. S., Fang, X., Qin, N., et al. (2010). Genomic comparison of the ants Camponotus floridanus and Harpegnathos saltator. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5995), 1068–1071.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vacca, J. R. (2006). Optical Networking Best Practices Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Brun, R. (Ed.). (2012). High Temperature Phenomena in Shock Waves (Vol. 7). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ussery, D. W., Wassenaar, T. M., & Borini, S. (2009). The Challenges of Programming: A Brief Introduction. In D. W. Ussery, T. M. Wassenaar, & S. Borini (Eds.), Computing for Comparative Microbial Genomics: Bioinformatics for Microbiologists (pp. 69–91). London: 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 Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.

Blog post

Felton, J. (2017, May 23). Scientists Politely Troll Bill Nye The Science Guy, Bill Responds Brilliantly. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/scientists-politely-troll-bill-nye-the-science-guy-bill-responds-brilliantly/. 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. (2006). Commercial Space Launches: FAA Needs Continued Planning and Monitoring to Oversee the Safety of the Emerging Space Tourism Industry (No. GAO-07-16). 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

Oliver, C. N. (2008). The relationship between length of kindergarten day and student literacy and math achievement (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2001, October 16). World Briefing | Europe: Abkhazia: Air Strikes On Rebels. New York Times, p. A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kupferschmidt 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kupferschmidt 2015; Lyon and Eadie 2004).

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

Two authors: (Lyon and Eadie 2004)
Three or more authors: (Bonasio et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Abbreviation	Phenomenol. Cogn. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1568-7759
ISSN (online)	1572-8676
Scope	Philosophy Cognitive Neuroscience