How to format your references using the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 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

Ciotti, L. (2009). Galaxy formation: Anatomy of elliptical galaxies. Nature, 460(7253), 333–334.

A journal article with 2 authors

Green, C. S., & Bavelier, D. (2003). Action video game modifies visual selective attention. Nature, 423(6939), 534–537.

A journal article with 3 authors

Field, J., Cronin, A., & Bridge, C. (2006). Future fitness and helping in social queues. Nature, 441(7090), 214–217.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Neill, D. R., Wong, S. H., Bellosi, A., Flynn, R. J., Daly, M., Langford, T. K. A., Bucks, C., Kane, C. M., Fallon, P. G., Pannell, R., Jolin, H. E., & McKenzie, A. N. J. (2010). Nuocytes represent a new innate effector leukocyte that mediates type-2 immunity. Nature, 464(7293), 1367–1370.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

James, L. (2014). Sustainability Footprints in SMEs. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Abramowicz, W., & Fensel, D. (Eds.). (2008). Business Information Systems: 11th International Conference, BIS 2008, Innsbruck, Austria, May 5-7, 2008. Proceedings (Vol. 7). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dominitz, A., Angenent, S., & Tannenbaum, A. (2008). On the Computation of Optimal Transport Maps Using Gradient Flows and Multiresolution Analysis. In V. D. Blondel, S. P. Boyd, & H. Kimura (Eds.), Recent Advances in Learning and Control (pp. 65–78). 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 Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, September 8). Estrogen In Suburban Yards Might Be Turning Frogs Female. 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. (1977). National Aeronautics and Space Administration Should Provide the Congress with More Information on the Pioneer Venus Project (PSAD-77-65). 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

Anderson, C. W. (2009). Breaking journalism down: Work, authority, and networking local news, 1997–2009 [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia 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

Adkins, M. (2015, January 11). Where Elmo’s People Shop. New York Times, MB3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ciotti, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Ciotti, 2009; Green & Bavelier, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Green & Bavelier, 2003)
Three authors: (Field et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Neill et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
Abbreviation	J. Subst. Abuse Treat.
ISSN (print)	0740-5472
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Psychiatry and Mental health Phychiatric Mental Health Clinical Psychology