How to format your references using the Psychology of Addictive Behaviors citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Michel-Kerjan, E. (2015). We must build resilience into our communities. Nature, 524(7566), 389.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nelson, E. C., & Braun, P. V. (2007). Chemistry. Enhancing colloids through the surface. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5852), 924–925.

A journal article with 3 authors

Costello, M. J., May, R. M., & Stork, N. E. (2013). Can we name Earth’s species before they go extinct? Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6118), 413–416.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Hernebring, M., Fredriksson, Å., Liljevald, M., Cvijovic, M., Norrman, K., Wiseman, J., Semb, H., & Nyström, T. (2013). Removal of damaged proteins during ES cell fate specification requires the proteasome activator PA28. Scientific Reports, 3, 1381.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

De Vos, A. (2010). Reversible Computing. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Viswanathan, A. N., Kirisits, C., Erickson, B. E., & Pötter, R. (Eds.). (2011). Gynecologic Radiation Therapy: Novel Approaches to Image-Guidance and Management. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Conforti, M., Cornuéjols, G., & Zambelli, G. (2014). Split and Gomory Inequalities. In G. Cornuéjols & G. Zambelli (Eds.), Integer Programming (pp. 195–234). 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 Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 1). How Yersinia Pestis Evolved its Ability to Kill Millions via Pneumonic Plague. 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. (2013). Education Research: Further Improvements Needed to Ensure Relevance and Assess Dissemination Efforts (GAO-14-8). 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

Nevitt, D. S. (2017). Organic Geochemical Proxies as Indicators of Paleoenvironmental Conditions and Source Sediment Provenance in the Chenier Plain, Vermilion and Cameron Parishes, Louisiana, USA [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

Koblin, J. (2016, September 15). Emmys Seek Ratings Winner. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Michel-Kerjan, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Michel-Kerjan, 2015; Nelson & Braun, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Nelson & Braun, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Hernebring et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
Abbreviation	Psychol. Addict. Behav.
ISSN (print)	0893-164X
ISSN (online)	1939-1501
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology