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

Quirrenbach, A. (2007). Astronomy. Seeing the surfaces of stars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5836), 325–326.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim, J., & DeBerardinis, R. J. (2013). Cancer. Silencing a metabolic oncogene. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6132), 558–559.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aronov, D., Andalman, A. S., & Fee, M. S. (2008). A specialized forebrain circuit for vocal babbling in the juvenile songbird. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5876), 630–634.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wu, J. Y., Feng, L., Park, H. T., Havlioglu, N., Wen, L., Tang, H., Bacon, K. B., Jiang Zh, Zhang Xc, & Rao, Y. (2001). The neuronal repellent Slit inhibits leukocyte chemotaxis induced by chemotactic factors. Nature, 410(6831), 948–952.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tms. (2014). TMS 2014 Supplemental Proceedings. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Peccati, G., & Reitzner, M. (Eds.). (2016). Stochastic Analysis for Poisson Point Processes: Malliavin Calculus, Wiener-Itô Chaos Expansions and Stochastic Geometry (Vol. 7). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Rugini, E., De Pace, C., Gutiérrez-Pesce, P., & Muleo, R. (2011). Olea. In C. Kole (Ed.), Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Temperate Fruits (pp. 79–117). 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, January 8). An extra second on the clock: why moving from astronomic to atomic time is a tricky business. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/extra-second-clock-why-moving-astronomic-atomic-time-tricky-business/

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. (1993). Tax Systems Modernization: Program Status and Comments on IRS’ Portion of President’s Request For Fiscal Year 1993 Supplemental Funds (T-IMTEC-93-3). 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

Duggimpudi, M. B. (2017). Object Ranking Algorithms for Improved Decision Making [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Somaiya, R. (2015, December 15). Reporters in Las Vegas Try to Crack Case of Who Really Owns Their Newspaper. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Quirrenbach, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Kim & DeBerardinis, 2013; Quirrenbach, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Kim & DeBerardinis, 2013)
Three authors: (Aronov et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Wu et al., 2001)

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