How to format your references using the Alcohol citation style

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

Govindan, R. (2014). Cancer. Attack of the clones. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6206), 169–170.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chyba, C. F., & Hand, K. P. (2001). Planetary science. Life without photosynthesis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5524), 2026–2027.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nateri, A. S., Spencer-Dene, B., & Behrens, A. (2005). Interaction of phosphorylated c-Jun with TCF4 regulates intestinal cancer development. Nature, 437(7056), 281–285.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Murtra, P., Sheasby, A. M., Hunt, S. P., & De Felipe, C. (2000). Rewarding effects of opiates are absent in mice lacking the receptor for substance P. Nature, 405(6783), 180–183.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yakushevich, L. V. (2005). Nonlinear Physics of DNA. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Frenking, G. (Ed.). (2005). Theoretical Aspects of Transition Metal Catalysis: -/- (Vol. 12). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Deepak, P., & Deshpande, P. M. (2015). Advanced Operators for Similarity Search. In P. M. Deshpande (Ed.), Operators for Similarity Search: Semantics, Techniques and Usage Scenarios (pp. 55–89). 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 Alcohol.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, June 5). Supernova Explosions May Give A Powerful Kick To Newborn Black Holes. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/supernova-explosions-may-give-a-powerful-kick-to-newborn-black-holes/

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. (1992). Aircraft Certification: Limited Progress on Developing International Design Standards (RCED-92-179). 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

McCorkle, W. B. (2005). Tongue, Nib, Block, Bit: Rhetorical Delivery and Technologies of Writing [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Hodara, S. (2014, October 5). Soaring on Paper Wings. New York Times, WE9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Govindan, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Chyba & Hand, 2001; Govindan, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Chyba & Hand, 2001)
Three authors: (Nateri et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Murtra et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Alcohol
Abbreviation	Alcohol
ISSN (print)	0741-8329
Scope	Biochemistry General Medicine Behavioral Neuroscience Neurology Toxicology Health(social science)