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

Smaglik, P., 2002. Going green: Ireland. Nature 416, 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rice, C.M., Saeed, M., 2014. Hepatitis C: Treatment triumphs. Nature 510, 43–44.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moreno, M., Rosenau, M., Oncken, O., 2010. 2010 Maule earthquake slip correlates with pre-seismic locking of Andean subduction zone. Nature 467, 198–202.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Duft, D., Achtzehn, T., Müller, R., Huber, B.A., Leisner, T., 2003. Coulomb fission: Rayleigh jets from levitated microdroplets. Nature 421, 128.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

PKF International Ltd, 2017. Wiley IFRS 2017 Interpretation and Application of IFRS Standards. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Chen, Z., Chen, H., Miao, Q., Fu, Y., Fox, E., Lim, E.-P. (Eds.), 2005. Digital Libraries: International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization: 7th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2004, Shanghai, China, December 13-17, 2004. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Webster, J., Roberts, J., Jones, R., 2008. Development of a Comfort Model for Cricket Leg Guards (P9), in: Brisson, P. (Ed.), The Engineering of Sport 7: Vol. 1. Springer, Paris, pp. 35–44.

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

Fang, J., 2014. How Octopuses Don’t Get Tangled Up [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, 1977. Answers to Questions With Regard to Statements on the Office of Technology Assessment (No. B-177806). 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

Batson, G., 2008. Head Start and at -risk students: Perceptions of administrators, practitioners, and parents (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Kelly, M., 1992. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Personal Finances; Perot Reneged on Pledge to Reagan. New York Times 122.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Rice and Saeed, 2014; Smaglik, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Rice and Saeed, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Duft et al., 2003)

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