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

Heckel, D.G. (2012) Ecology. Insecticide resistance after Silent spring. Science 337, 1612–1614

A journal article with 2 authors

Mangalam, M. and Karve, S.M. (2015) ANIMAL COGNITION. Comment on “Number-space mapping in the newborn chick resembles humans’ mental number line.” Science 348, 1438

A journal article with 3 authors

Müller, K. et al. (2007) Fluorine in pharmaceuticals: looking beyond intuition. Science 317, 1881–1886

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Rosenstiel, T.N. et al. (2003) Increased CO2 uncouples growth from isoprene emission in an agriforest ecosystem. Nature 421, 256–259

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg, S.M. (2009) Controllership, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Naylor, P.A. and Gaubitch, N.D., eds. (2010) Speech Dereverberation, Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, H. (2012) Meditations on Quantified Constraint Satisfaction. In Logic and Program Semantics: Essays Dedicated to Dexter Kozen on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Constable, R. L. and Silva, A., eds), pp. 35–49, 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, D. (2016) What Do Olympians Actually Eat?. IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-do-olympians-actually-eat/. [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 (2010) Telecommunications: FCC Should Assess the Design of the E-rate Program’s Internal Control Structure, 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

Hurwitz, B.L. (2012) Viral community dynamics and functional specialization in the Pacific Ocean. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Chivers, C.J. et al. (2004) Investigators Seek Causes of Near-Simultaneous Jet Crashes in Russia That Killed 89New York Times, A12

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

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