How to format your references using the Trends in Cognitive Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Trends in 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	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

Ellemers, N. (2012) The group self. Science 336, 848–852

A journal article with 2 authors

Galitski, V. and Spielman, I.B. (2013) Spin-orbit coupling in quantum gases. Nature 494, 49–54

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu, S.W. et al. (2006) Atomic-scale coupling of photons to single-molecule junctions. Science 312, 1362–1365

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Maragliano, C. et al. (2014) Quantifying charge carrier concentration in ZnO thin films by Scanning Kelvin Probe Microscopy. Sci. Rep. 4, 4203

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bintliff, J. (2012) The Complete Archaeology of Greece, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Shaw, R., ed. (2014) Community Practices for Disaster Risk Reduction in Japan, Springer Japan

A chapter in an edited book

Porter, M.D. et al. (2012) Innovative Methods for Terrorism and Counterterrorism Data. In Evidence-Based Counterterrorism Policy (Lum, C. and Kennedy, L. W., eds), pp. 91–112, 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 Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014) Flies Evade Swatting With Fighter Jet-Like Maneuvering. IFLScience. [Online]. [Accessed: 30-Oct-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 (2001) Airline Competition: Issues Raised by Consolidation Proposals, 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

Gajewski, T.J. (2014) Exploring leadership styles from a mediator’s perspective: A phenomenological study examining four specific organizational leadership styles and their relationship to four mediation styles as summarized by Leonard L. Riskin. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Brantley, B. (2017) Deluded, Yet So ReasonableNew York Times, C1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Abbreviation	Trends Cogn. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1364-6613
ISSN (online)	1879-307X
Scope	Cognitive Neuroscience Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology