How to format your references using the Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 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

Pain E (2008) Science careers. Sustaining forests in a changing world. Science 320:1514–1517.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rossky PJ, Walker GC (2010) Retrospective. Paul F. Barbara (1953-2010). Science 330:1191.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bania TM, Rood RT, Balser DS (2002) The cosmological density of baryons from observations of 3He+ in the Milky Way. Nature 415:54–57.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

MacDonald D, Demarre G, Bouvier M, Mazel D, Gopaul DN (2006) Structural basis for broad DNA-specificity in integron recombination. Nature 440:1157–1162.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith MB (2014) Compendium of Organic Synthetic Methods: Smith/Compendium, Compendium of Organic Synthetic Methods. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Colombo L, Giordano S (Eds.) (2007) Introduzione alla Teoria della elasticità: Meccanica dei solidi continui in regime lineare elastico, UNITEXT. Milano, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Solodov I (2010) Non-Classical Nonlinearity in Solids for Defect-Selective Imaging and NDE In: IUTAM Symposium on Recent Advances of Acoustic Waves in Solids: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Recent Advances of Acoustic Waves in Solids, Taipei, Taiwan, May 25-28, 2009, IUTAM Bookseries (Wu T-T, Ma C-C eds), pp 53–63. Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands.

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 Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Octomom Brooded Her Eggs for Record-Breaking Four-and-a-Half Years. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/octomom-brooded-her-eggs-record-breaking-four-and-half-years/ Accessed October 30, 2018.

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 (1989) Aviation Safety: FAA Action Plan for Chicago O’Hare International Airport (No. RCED-89-114). Washington, DC, 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

Vidal EM (2014) Alcohol disorder with hip or knee surgery: Postoperative alcohol disorder-related costs and length of stay (Doctoral dissertation). Long Beach, CA, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Wyndham S (2017) The Circles of Hellhaus. New York Times BR19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pain, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Pain, 2008; Rossky and Walker, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Rossky and Walker, 2010)
Three or more authors: (MacDonald et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
Abbreviation	Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res.
ISSN (online)	1530-0277
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Psychiatry and Mental health Toxicology