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

Sarewitz, D., 2013. Science must be seen to bridge the political divide. Nature 493, 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Levine, J.M., HilleRisLambers, J., 2009. The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity. Nature 461, 254–257.

A journal article with 3 authors

Westover, K.D., Bushnell, D.A., Kornberg, R.D., 2004. Structural basis of transcription: separation of RNA from DNA by RNA polymerase II. Science 303, 1014–1016.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Belkaid, Y., Piccirillo, C.A., Mendez, S., Shevach, E.M., Sacks, D.L., 2002. CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells control Leishmania major persistence and immunity. Nature 420, 502–507.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mittleman, A.L., 2011. A Short History of Jewish Ethics. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Bortz, J.H., Ramlaul, A., Munro, L. (Eds.), 2016. CT Colonography for Radiographers: A Guide to Performance and Image Interpretation. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Anderson, D.G., 2016. Pedicle-Lengthening Osteotomy for the Treatment of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis, in: Manfrè, L. (Ed.), Spinal Canal Stenosis. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 75–85.

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., 2015. Scientists Discover Evolutionary Advantage For Homosexuality [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-discover-evolutionary-advantage-homosexual-sex/ (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. Transportation Issue Area: Active Assignments (No. AA-98-18(3)). 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

Meijer, K., 2015. Let the Gods Dance: Transformation Through Haitian Dance (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Chira, S., 2013. Strange Moors. New York Times BR14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sarewitz, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Levine and HilleRisLambers, 2009; Sarewitz, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Levine and HilleRisLambers, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Belkaid et al., 2002)

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

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