How to format your references using the Addiction Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Addiction Biology. 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

Le Hur K (2015) Condensed-matter physics: Quantum dots and the Kondo effect. Nature 526:203–204.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davis SJ & Shearer C (2014) Climate change: A crack in the natural-gas bridge. Nature 514:436–437.

A journal article with 3 authors

Clem RL, Celikel T & Barth AL (2008) Ongoing in vivo experience triggers synaptic metaplasticity in the neocortex. Science 319:101–104.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pavithra CLP, Sarada BV, Rajulapati KV, Rao TN & Sundararajan G (2014) A new electrochemical approach for the synthesis of copper-graphene nanocomposite foils with high hardness. Sci Rep 4:4049.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahamed SV (2006) Intelligent Internet Knowledge Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mortier RM, Fox MF & Orszulik ST eds. (2010) Chemistry and Technology of Lubricants. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Schönthaler F, Vossen G, Oberweis A & Karle T (2012) The Horus Method. In: Business Processes for Business Communities: Modeling Languages, Methods, Tools. G. Vossen, A. Oberweis & T. Karle (eds). Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 61–136.

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 Addiction Biology.

Blog post

Andrew D (2015) IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/elmo-joins-fight-against-anti-vaxxers/. 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 (2007) Reading First: States Report Improvements in Reading Instruction, but Additional Procedures Would Clarify Education’s Role in Ensuring Proper Implementation by States. 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

Queener JD (2015) A Post-School Outcome Study of Students with Learning Disabilities.

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

Wagner J (2017) Baseball; Mets’ Wright Has Another Operation. New York Times:B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Le Hur 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Davis & Shearer 2014; Le Hur 2015).

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

Two authors: (Davis & Shearer 2014)
Three or more authors: (Pavithra et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Addiction Biology
Abbreviation	Addict. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1355-6215
ISSN (online)	1369-1600
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Psychiatry and Mental health Pharmacology