How to format your references using the Psychopharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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

Radford T (2011) Of course scientists can communicate. Nature 469:445

A journal article with 2 authors

Corten GP, Veldkamp HF (2001) Aerodynamics. Insects can halve wind-turbine power. Nature 412:41–42

A journal article with 3 authors

Mayberry RI, Lock E, Kazmi H (2002) Linguistic ability and early language exposure. Nature 417:38

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sui P, Wiesner DL, Xu J, et al (2018) Pulmonary neuroendocrine cells amplify allergic asthma responses. Science 360:

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Çayirci E, Rong C (2009) Security in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Rehm G, Uszkoreit H (eds) (2012) The French Language in the Digital Age. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Campadelli P, Casiraghi E (2005) Pruning the Nodule Candidate Set in Postero Anterior Chest Radiographs. In: Apolloni B, Marinaro M, Tagliaferri R (eds) Biological and Artificial Intelligence Environments: 15th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN VIETRI 2004. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 37–43

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 Psychopharmacology.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Scientists Worry Italy’s Next Earthquake Might Topple Michelangelo’s David. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-worry-italys-next-earthquake-might-topple-michelangelos-david-/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2006) Social Security Numbers: More Could be Done to Protect SSNs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nelson PT (2008) Sound as a gateway to a personal relationship with nature. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Markowitz JC (2016) There’s Such a Thing as Too Much Neuroscience. New York Times A21

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Radford 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Corten and Veldkamp 2001; Radford 2011).

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

Two authors: (Corten and Veldkamp 2001)
Three or more authors: (Sui et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychopharmacology
Abbreviation	Psychopharmacology (Berl.)
ISSN (print)	0033-3158
ISSN (online)	1432-2072
Scope	Pharmacology