How to format your references using the European Neuropsychopharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Neuropsychopharmacology. 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

Shaffer, C.H., 2006. The charge-up man. Nature 444, 652.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shizuka, D., Lyon, B.E., 2010. Coots use hatch order to learn to recognize and reject conspecific brood parasitic chicks. Nature 463, 223–226.

A journal article with 3 authors

Halevy, I., Peters, S.E., Fischer, W.W., 2012. Sulfate burial constraints on the Phanerozoic sulfur cycle. Science 337, 331–334.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dinneny, J.R., Long, T.A., Wang, J.Y., Jung, J.W., Mace, D., Pointer, S., Barron, C., Brady, S.M., Schiefelbein, J., Benfey, P.N., 2008. Cell identity mediates the response of Arabidopsis roots to abiotic stress. Science 320, 942–945.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nash, C.E., 2011. The History of Aquaculture. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Golden, B., Raghavan, S., Wasil, E. (Eds.), 2005. The Next Wave in Computing, Optimization, and Decision Technologies, Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, H., 2010. Parameterization of 3D Conformal Transformations in Conformal Geometric Algebra, in: Bayro-Corrochano, E., Scheuermann, G. (Eds.), Geometric Algebra Computing: In Engineering and Computer Science. Springer, London, pp. 71–90.

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 European Neuropsychopharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. BBC Told To Stop Giving Equal Time To Science Deniers [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1998. School Technology: Five School Districts’ Experiences in Financing Technology Programs (No. T-HEHS-98-83). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Shibata, C.L., 2017. Building positive body image in adolescent girls: An evaluation of a body image prevention program (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Gustines, G.G., 2013. Superman at 75: Still Going Strong. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shaffer, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Shaffer, 2006; Shizuka and Lyon, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Shizuka and Lyon, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Dinneny et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Neuropsychopharmacology
Abbreviation	Eur. Neuropsychopharmacol.
ISSN (print)	0924-977X
Scope	Clinical Neurology Pharmacology (medical) Psychiatry and Mental health Biological Psychiatry Neurology Pharmacology