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

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