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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Vidale, J. E. (2001). Geophysics. Peeling back the layers in Earth’s mantle. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5541), 313.
A journal article with 2 authors
Stewart, I., & Cohen, J. (2000). Monolith. Nature, 408(6815), 913.
A journal article with 3 authors
Vecchi, G. A., Swanson, K. L., & Soden, B. J. (2008). Climate change. Whither hurricane activity? Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5902), 687–689.
A journal article with 21 or more authors
Paton, A. W., Beddoe, T., Thorpe, C. M., Whisstock, J. C., Wilce, M. C. J., Rossjohn, J., Talbot, U. M., & Paton, J. C. (2006). AB5 subtilase cytotoxin inactivates the endoplasmic reticulum chaperone BiP. Nature, 443(7111), 548–552.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Casadella, V., Liu, Z., & Uzunidis, D. (2015). Innovation Capabilities and Economic Development in Open Economies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Falser, M. (Ed.). (2015). Cultural Heritage as Civilizing Mission: From Decay to Recovery. Springer International Publishing.
A chapter in an edited book
Torvik, V. I., & Triantaphyllou, E. (2006). Discovering Rules That Govern Monotone Phenomena. In E. Triantaphyllou & G. Felici (Eds.), Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Approaches Based on Rule Induction Techniques (pp. 149–192). Springer US.

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
Andrews, R. (2016, April 27). Dinosaurs Took Part In Mass Exodus From Europe As Pangaea Fragmented. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dinosaurs-took-part-mass-exodus-europe-pangaea-fragmented/

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. (2011). USDA Systems Modernization: Management and Oversight Improvements Are Needed (GAO-11-586). 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
Altiparmak, F. (2008). Online Management and Mining of Heteregenous and Dynamic Time Series [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
Crow, K. (2002, July 14). North, South, North Again . . . A Street Tries to Make Up Its Mind. New York Times, 145.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vidale, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Stewart & Cohen, 2000; Vidale, 2001).

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

  • Two authors: (Stewart & Cohen, 2000)
  • Three or more authors: (Paton et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal titleAlcohol
AbbreviationAlcohol
ISSN (print)0741-8329
ScopeBiochemistry
General Medicine
Behavioral Neuroscience
Neurology
Toxicology
Health(social science)

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