How to format your references using the Addictive Behaviors Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Addictive Behaviors Reports. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Benovic, J. L. (2015). Structural biology: Arresting developments in receptor signalling. Nature, 523(7562), 538–539.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marande, W., & Burger, G. (2007). Mitochondrial DNA as a genomic jigsaw puzzle. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5849), 415.

A journal article with 3 authors

Quattrociocchi, W., Caldarelli, G., & Scala, A. (2014). Opinion dynamics on interacting networks: media competition and social influence. Scientific Reports, 4, 4938.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Shakya, R., Reid, L. J., Reczek, C. R., Cole, F., Egli, D., Lin, C.-S., deRooij, D. G., Hirsch, S., Ravi, K., Hicks, J. B., Szabolcs, M., Jasin, M., Baer, R., & Ludwig, T. (2011). BRCA1 tumor suppression depends on BRCT phosphoprotein binding, but not its E3 ligase activity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6055), 525–528.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Christophers, B. (2013). Banking Across Boundaries. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Cheng, L., & Bostwick, D. G. (Eds.). (2006). Essentials of Anatomic Pathology (Second Edition). Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Scherzer, O., Grasmair, M., Grossauer, H., Haltmeier, M., & Lenzen, F. (2009). Convex Regularization Methods for Denoising. In M. Grasmair, H. Grossauer, M. Haltmeier, & F. Lenzen (Eds.), Variational Methods in Imaging (pp. 115–158). 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 Addictive Behaviors Reports.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, September 2). Tiny implanted sensor and your smartphone could help prevent blindness. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/tiny-implanted-sensor-and-your-smartphone-could-help-prevent-blindness/

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. (1981). Major Science and Technology Issues (PAD-81-35). 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

Tian, C. Y. (2010). Studies of equilibrium conditions in housing markets [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Poniewozik, J. (2016, September 26). On Trump and Clinton, Letting the Chips Fall Where They May. 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 (Benovic, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Benovic, 2015; Marande & Burger, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Marande & Burger, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Shakya et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Addictive Behaviors Reports
Abbreviation	Addict. Behav. Rep.
ISSN (print)	2352-8532
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