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

Bertrand CA. Tech.Sight. Color by number: imaging large data. Science. 2001;293(5533):1335-1336.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fang J, McCutchan TF. Thermoregulation in a parasite’s life cycle. Nature. 2002;418(6899):742.

A journal article with 3 authors

Long SB, Campbell EB, Mackinnon R. Crystal structure of a mammalian voltage-dependent Shaker family K+ channel. Science. 2005;309(5736):897-903.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhu Y, Zhu LN, Guo R, Cui HJ, Ye S, Fang Q. Nanoliter-scale protein crystallization and screening with a microfluidic droplet robot. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5046.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sarkar TK, Salazar-Palma M, Mokole EL. Physics of Multiantenna Systems and Broadband Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

Mišćenić E, Raccah A, eds. Legal Risks in EU Law: Interdisciplinary Studies on Legal Risk Management and Better Regulation in Europe. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Rosaci D, Sarné GML. REBECCA: A Trust-Based Filtering to Improve Recommendations for B2C e-Commerce. In: Zavoral F, Jung JJ, Badica C, eds. Intelligent Distributed Computing VII: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2013. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer International Publishing; 2014:31-36.

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

Luntz S. Humpback Whale Birth Observed. IFLScience. July 31, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/humpback-whale-birth-observed/

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. Experimental Schools Program: Opportunities To Improve the Management of an Educational Research Program. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Dickens JR. The Experience of Recovery from Alcohol/Drugs (AOD). Doctoral dissertation. Capella University; 2011.

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

Williams J. A Modern Masterpiece Turns 25. New York Times. March 29, 2017:BR4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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