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

Bainbridge WS (2007) The scientific research potential of virtual worlds. Science 317:472–476.

A journal article with 2 authors

Verger PJP, Boobis AR (2013) Global food supply. Reevaluate pesticides for food security and safety. Science 341:717–718.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ichimura T, Fujiwara K, Tanaka H (2014) Dual field effects in electrolyte-gated spinel ferrite: electrostatic carrier doping and redox reactions. Sci Rep 4:5818.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Auslaender OM, Yacoby A, de Picciotto R, Baldwin KW, Pfeiffer LN, West KW (2002) Tunneling spectroscopy of the elementary excitations in a one-dimensional wire. Science 295:825–828.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnson A (2014) Small Animal Pathology for Veterinary Technicians. Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Jensen GR (2016) Surfaces in Classical Geometries: A Treatment by Moving Frames, Universitext. Cham, Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee D (2016) By-Product Synergy: Productively Using Waste in Joint Production Operations In: Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains, Springer Series in Supply Chain Management (Atasu A ed), pp 53–70. Cham, 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 Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Antioxidants Can Make Cancers Worse. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/antioxidants-can-make-cancers-worse/ 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 (2015) Technology Assessment: Water in the Energy Sector: Reducing Freshwater Use in Hydraulic Fracturing and Thermoelectric Power Plant Cooling (No. GAO-15-545). 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

Nannapaneni D (2015) Factors associated with HPV acceptability among parents (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

de la MERCED MJ (2017) Blue Apron Pursues I.P.O. As Amazon Poses Threat. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bainbridge, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bainbridge, 2007; Verger and Boobis, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Verger and Boobis, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Auslaender et al., 2002)

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