How to format your references using the Neuropsychopharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neuropsychopharmacology (NPP). 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

Perkel JM. Lab-inventory management: Time to take stock. Nature. 2015;524:125–126.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hauser MD, Bever T. Behavior. A biolinguistic agenda. Science. 2008;322:1057–1059.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hauke P, Tagliacozzo L, Lewenstein M. Physics. Speeding up quantum field theories. Science. 2012;336:1122–1123.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ohnishi K, Ono Y, Nomura T, Kimura T. Significant change of spin transport property in Cu/Nb bilayer due to superconducting transition. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6260.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cremona C. Structural Performance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Kerschen G, editor. Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Hormazábal N, Cardoso HL, de la Rosa JL, Oliveira E. An Approach for Virtual Organisations’ Dissolution. In: Padget J, Artikis A, Vasconcelos W, Stathis K, Silva VT da, Matson E, et al., editors. Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems V: COIN 2009 International Workshops. COIN@AAMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 2009, COIN@IJCAI 2009, Pasadena, USA, July 2009, COIN@MALLOW 2009, Turin, Italy, September 2009. Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 70–85.

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 Neuropsychopharmacology.

Blog post

Hale T. What’s The Truth Behind This ‘13-Pound Monster Frog’ Photo? IFLScience. 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/whats-the-truth-behind-this-13pound-monster-frog-photo/. Accessed 30 October 2018.

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. Highway Trust Fund: Financial Status and Outlook. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Avila R. Support and Resources for Homeless Families: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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

Cooper M. Dudamel Condemns Venezuelan Politics. New York Times. 2017:C2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Neuropsychopharmacology
Abbreviation	Neuropsychopharmacology
ISSN (print)	0893-133X
ISSN (online)	1470-634X
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Pharmacology

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