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

Buchanan, M. (2005). Capturing chaos. Nature, 435(7040), 281.

A journal article with 2 authors

Murayama, Y., & Uhlmann, F. (2014). Biochemical reconstitution of topological DNA binding by the cohesin ring. Nature, 505(7483), 367–371.

A journal article with 3 authors

Euston, D. R., Tatsuno, M., & McNaughton, B. L. (2007). Fast-forward playback of recent memory sequences in prefrontal cortex during sleep. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5853), 1147–1150.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Xie, G., Shen, Y., Wei, X., Yang, L., Xiao, H., Zhong, J., & Zhang, G. (2014). A bond-order theory on the phonon scattering by vacancies in two-dimensional materials. Scientific reports, 4, 5085.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chow, S.-C., & Liu, J.-P. (2005). Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials: Concepts and Methodologies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hei, X. J., & Cheung, L. (Eds.). (2010). Access Networks: 4th International Conference, AccessNets 2009, Hong Kong, China, November 1-3, 2009, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 37). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Greiner, W., & Reinhardt, J. (2009). The Scattering Matrix in Higher Orders. In J. Reinhardt (Ed.), Quantum Electrodynamics (pp. 255–328). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Andrew, E. (2015, September 17). How We Plan To Bring Dark Matter To Light. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-we-plan-bring-dark-matter-light/. 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. (1982). NASA Must Reconsider Operations Pricing Policy To Compensate for Cost Growth on the Space Transportation System (No. MASAD-82-15). 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

Brown, H. P. (2003). The Pragmatics of Direct Address in the Iliad: A Study in Linguistic Politeness (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Hodgman, J. (2017, April 7). Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, p. MM26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buchanan 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Buchanan 2005; Murayama and Uhlmann 2014).

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

Two authors: (Murayama and Uhlmann 2014)
Three or more authors: (Xie et al. 2014)

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