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.

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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.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
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.
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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
Boyce W (2007) Earth monitoring: vigilance is not enough. Nature 450:791–792.
A journal article with 2 authors
Morel FMM, Groves JT (2006) Retrospective: Edward I. Stiefel (1942-2006). Science 314:1406.
A journal article with 3 authors
Goebel T, Waters MR, Dikova M (2003) The archaeology of Ushki Lake, Kamchatka, and the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas. Science 301:501–505.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Polo S, Sigismund S, Faretta M, Guidi M, Capua MR, Bossi G, Chen H, De Camilli P, Di Fiore PP (2002) A single motif responsible for ubiquitin recognition and monoubiquitination in endocytic proteins. Nature 416:451–455.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Brown MA, Kaplan L (2012) The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse as a Prescriber. West Sussex, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
An edited book
Rodgers M, Sweeney SE (Eds.) (2016) Nabokov and the Question of Morality: Aesthetics, Metaphysics, and the Ethics of Fiction. New York, NY, Palgrave Macmillan US.
A chapter in an edited book
Aronoff CE, McClure SL, Ward JL (2011) Developing Effective Successors In: Family Business Succession: The Final Test of Greatness (McClure SL, Ward JL eds), pp 33–50. New York, NY, Palgrave Macmillan 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 Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

Blog post
Davis J (2016) Genetically Engineered Cells Could Treat Diabetics Without The Need For Injections. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/genetically-engineered-cells-could-treat-diabetics-without-the-need-for-injections/ 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 (2005) Department of Education’s Update of the State and Other Tax Allowance for Student Aid Award Year 2005-2006 (No. GAO-05-408R). 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
Beechey SN (2008) The politics of deservingness: Discourses of gender, race, *class, and age in the 2005 Social Security debates (Doctoral dissertation). Washington, DC, George Washington 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 (2017) Suburban Touches With a Bustling Downtown. New York Times RE9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boyce, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Boyce, 2007; Morel and Groves, 2006).

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

  • Two authors: (Morel and Groves, 2006)
  • Three or more authors: (Polo et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal titleAlcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
AbbreviationAlcohol. Clin. Exp. Res.
ISSN (online)1530-0277
ScopeMedicine (miscellaneous)
Psychiatry and Mental health
Toxicology

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