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

Dickson JAD (2002) Fossil echinoderms as monitor of the Mg/Ca ratio of Phanerozoic oceans. Science 298:1222–1224

A journal article with 2 authors

Berry RM, Armitage JP (2008) Microbiology. How bacteria change gear. Science 320:1599–1600

A journal article with 3 authors

Ellwood MJ, Wille M, Maher W (2010) Glacial silicic acid concentrations in the Southern Ocean. Science 330:1088–1091

A journal article with 5 or more authors

McLellan JS, Zheng X, Hauk G, et al (2008) The mode of Hedgehog binding to Ihog homologues is not conserved across different phyla. Nature 455:979–983

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khan MM, Islam MR (2016) Zero Waste Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Jøsang A, Maseng T, Knapskog SJ (eds) (2009) Identity and Privacy in the Internet Age: 14th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems, NordSec 2009, Oslo, Norway, 14-16 October 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

van Hillegersberg R (2015) Esophagectomy for Cancer. In: Spinoglio G (ed) Robotic Surgery: Current Applications and New Trends. Springer, Milano, pp 43–50

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

Andrew E (2015) Scientist At Work: Mathematician Collects Ocean And Glacier Data In The Field To Make Climate Models In The Lab. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientist-work-mathematician-collects-ocean-and-glacier-data-field-make-climate-models/. 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 (2012) Telecommunications: Exposure and Testing Requirements for Mobile Phones Should Be Reassessed. 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

Nolan SA (2010) Ecopoetry and ecocentrism: The poetics of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kelly C (2013) Orphans, Drug Wars and Other Mysteries. New York Times A25B

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dickson 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Dickson 2002; Berry and Armitage 2008).

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

Two authors: (Berry and Armitage 2008)
Three or more authors: (McLellan et al. 2008)

About the journal

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