How to format your references using the Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. 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

Collins, D. (2009). Misadventures in the Burgess Shale. Nature, 460(7258), 952–953.

A journal article with 2 authors

Byers, J., & Dunn, S. (2013). Response to comments on “Bateman in nature: predation on offspring reduces the potential for sexual selection.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6132), 549.

A journal article with 3 authors

Navarrete, A., van Schaik, C. P., & Isler, K. (2011). Energetics and the evolution of human brain size. Nature, 480(7375), 91–93.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Eckstein-Ludwig, U., Webb, R. J., Van Goethem, I. D. A., East, J. M., Lee, A. G., Kimura, M., O’Neill, P. M., Bray, P. G., Ward, S. A., & Krishna, S. (2003). Artemisinins target the SERCA of Plasmodium falciparum. Nature, 424(6951), 957–961.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kunz, R. G. (2009). Environmental Calculations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bernstein, D. J., & Chatterjee, S. (Eds.). (2011). Progress in Cryptology – INDOCRYPT 2011: 12th International Conference on Cryptology in India, Chennai, India, December 11-14, 2011. Proceedings (Vol. 7107). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Xu, L., Lin, W., & Kuo, C.-C. J. (2015). Metrics Fusion. In W. Lin & C.-C. J. Kuo (Eds.), Visual Quality Assessment by Machine Learning (pp. 93–122). Springer.

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 Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 15). Entangled Whale’s Ordeal Ends As Scientists Free It. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2011). Chemical Assessments: Challenges Remain with EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System Program (GAO-12-42). 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

Urshel, C. L. (2006). The Technical Adequacy of Standards-Derived Curriculum-Based Measures for Reading Comprehension and Math Computation in Middle School [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Poniewozik, J. (2016, September 15). Harshing the Mellow of Angsty Hipsters. New York Times, C9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Collins, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Byers & Dunn, 2013; Collins, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Byers & Dunn, 2013)
Three authors: (Navarrete et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Eckstein-Ludwig et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
Abbreviation	Exp. Clin. Psychopharmacol.
ISSN (print)	1064-1297
ISSN (online)	1936-2293
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Psychiatry and Mental health Pharmacology