How to format your references using the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 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

Check, E. (2003). Report backs Smithsonian research. Nature, 421(6920), 198.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peters, S. E., and Gaines, R. R. (2012). Formation of the “Great Unconformity” as a trigger for the Cambrian explosion. Nature, 484(7394), 363–366.

A journal article with 3 authors

Latimer, A. M., Silander, J. A., Jr, and Cowling, R. M. (2005). Neutral ecological theory reveals isolation and rapid speciation in a biodiversity hot spot. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5741), 1722–1725.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Douglas, S. M., Dietz, H., Liedl, T., Högberg, B., Graf, F., and Shih, W. M. (2009). Self-assembly of DNA into nanoscale three-dimensional shapes. Nature, 459(7245), 414–418.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zigangirov, K. S. (2004). Theory of Code Division Multiple Access Communication. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Deer, T. R., and Pope, J. E. (Eds.). (2016). Atlas of Implantable Therapies for Pain Management (2nd ed. 2016.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, D., and Lin, C. (2016). Crystal Growth and Characterization of NaxCoO2 and NaxCoO2·yH2O. In C. Lin, A. Maljuk, and F. Zhou (Eds.), Growth and Characterization of Bulk Superconductor Material, Springer Series in Materials Science (pp. 115–142). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, November 2). 10 Lies You Were Probably Taught In School. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/brain/10-lies-you-were-probably-taught-school/

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. (2000). Federal Communications Commission: Narrowband Personal Communications Services and Competitive Bidding ( No. OGC-00-47). Washington, DC: 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

Zbeeb, K. (2009). Transport and dispersion of fire extinguishing agents downstream from clutter elements of aircraft engine nacelles (Doctoral dissertation). Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic University.

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

Baker, K. J. (2016, November 25). White-Collar Supremacy. New York Times, A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Check, 2003; Peters and Gaines, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Peters and Gaines, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Douglas et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
Abbreviation	J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs
ISSN (print)	1937-1888
ISSN (online)	1938-4114
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Toxicology Health(social science)