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

Zoback MD (2000) Earth science. Strength of the San Andreas. Nature 405:31–32

A journal article with 2 authors

Deckert R, Dameris M (2008) Atmospheric science. From ocean to stratosphere. Science 322:53–55

A journal article with 3 authors

Bowman D, King G, Tapponnier P (2003) Slip partitioning by elastoplastic propagation of oblique slip at depth. Science 300:1121–1123

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tang P, Hu G, Gao Y, et al (2014) The microwave adsorption behavior and microwave-assisted heteroatoms doping of graphene-based nano-carbon materials. Sci Rep 4:5901

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gottlieb I (2009) Next Generation Excel. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd., 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809

An edited book

Kaneko M, Nakamura Y (eds) (2011) Robotics Research: The 13th International Symposium ISRR. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Zwikael O, Smyrk J (2011) Starting a New Project. In: Smyrk J (ed) Project Management for the Creation of Organisational Value. Springer, London, pp 135–180

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

Hamilton K (2015) How To Win At Rock-Paper-Scissors With Science. In: IFLScience. 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 (1972) Controls Over Funds Available to the District of Columbia Public Schools. 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

Smith JA (2010) Functional analysis of ESAT-6 and EspB, two virulence proteins secreted by the ESX-1 system in Mycobacterium marinum. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Clarey C (2016) Open Champion Shows Vulnerability Off the Court, Not on It. New York Times B10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zoback 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Zoback 2000; Deckert and Dameris 2008).

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

Two authors: (Deckert and Dameris 2008)
Three or more authors: (Tang et al. 2014)

About the journal

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