How to format your references using the Schizophrenia Research: Cognition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Schizophrenia Research: Cognition. 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

Wolinetz, C.D., 2012. Implementing the new U.S. dual-use policy. Science 336, 1525–1527.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zheng, J., Jia, Z., 2010. Structure of the bifunctional isocitrate dehydrogenase kinase/phosphatase. Nature 465, 961–965.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mori, M.X., Erickson, M.G., Yue, D.T., 2004. Functional stoichiometry and local enrichment of calmodulin interacting with Ca2+ channels. Science 304, 432–435.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Battin, T.J., Kaplan, L.A., Denis Newbold, J., Hansen, C.M.E., 2003. Contributions of microbial biofilms to ecosystem processes in stream mesocosms. Nature 426, 439–442.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rassool, G.H., 2010. Addiction for Nurses. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Linkov, I., Wenning, R.J., Kiker, G.A. (Eds.), 2007. Managing Critical Infrastructure Risks: Decision Tools and Applications for Port Security, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Duncan, J.G., Finck, B.N., 2012. PPAR/PGC-1 Regulation of Metabolism in Cardiac Disease, in: Patterson, C., Willis, M.S. (Eds.), Translational Cardiology: Molecular Basis of Cardiac Metabolism, Cardiac Remodeling, Translational Therapies and Imaging Techniques. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 83–111.

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 Schizophrenia Research: Cognition.

Blog post

Evans, K., 2016. US Surgeon General Says Drug Addiction Is A Disease And Should Be Treated As Any Other [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1989. High-Definition Television: Applications for This New Technology (No. IMTEC-90-9FS). 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

Usborne, E.L., 2012. Sediment and phosphorus dynamics behind weirs in agricultural drainage ditches (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

George, R.P., 2012. Interpretive Freedom. New York Times BR22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wolinetz, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Wolinetz, 2012; Zheng and Jia, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Zheng and Jia, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Battin et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Schizophrenia Research: Cognition
Abbreviation	Schizophr. Res. Cogn.
ISSN (print)	2215-0013
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