How to format your references using the Addictive Behaviors citation style

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

El-Azab, A. (2008). Materials science. The statistical mechanics of strain-hardened metals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5884), 1729–1730.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, J.-Y., & Huang, D.-Y. (2002). A possible Lower Cambrian chaetognath (arrow worm). Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5591), 187.

A journal article with 3 authors

O’Gorman, C. M., Fuller, H. T., & Dyer, P. S. (2009). Discovery of a sexual cycle in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. Nature, 457(7228), 471–474.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hsu, S.-H., Li, C.-T., Chien, H.-T., Salunkhe, R. R., Suzuki, N., Yamauchi, Y., Ho, K.-C., & Wu, K. C.-W. (2014). Platinum-free counter electrode comprised of metal-organic-framework (MOF)-derived cobalt sulfide nanoparticles for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Scientific Reports, 4, 6983.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Peterson, R. L., & Murtha, F. F. (2010). MarketPsych. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Olsson, M.-O., & Sjöstedt, G. (Eds.). (2005). Systems Approaches and Their Application: Examples from Sweden. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Dämmrich, M. E., & Kreipe, H. H. (2015). Standardized Processing of Native Tissue in Breast Pathology. In M. Dietel, C. Wittekind, G. Bussolati, & M. von Winterfeld (Eds.), Pre-Analytics of Pathological Specimens in Oncology (pp. 45–53). Springer International Publishing.

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 Addictive Behaviors.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, August 13). Petrified Tree Shows Scars From Prehistoric Wildfires. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/petrified-tree-shows-scars-prehistoric-wildfires/

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. (1978). Better Information Needed for Oversight and Evaluation of Selected Elementary and Secondary Education Programs (PAD-78-35). 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

Glock, M. (2008). Cultural futuristics: Bringing consciousness to cultural complexes and soul to scenario based planning [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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, May 5). A Household In Thrall To Tales Told. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (El-Azab, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Chen & Huang, 2002; El-Azab, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Chen & Huang, 2002)
Three authors: (O’Gorman et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Hsu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Addictive Behaviors
Abbreviation	Addict. Behav.
ISSN (print)	0306-4603
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Psychiatry and Mental health Toxicology Clinical Psychology