How to format your references using the Addiction Biology citation style

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

Hughes AL. Strength in numbers. Nature. 2002;417(6891):795.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shen Y, Lua AC. A facile method for the large-scale continuous synthesis of graphene sheets using a novel catalyst. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3037.

A journal article with 3 authors

Abel T, Bryan GL, Norman ML. The formation of the first star in the Universe. Science. 2002;295(5552):93-98.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gardner TA, Côté IM, Gill JA, Grant A, Watkinson AR. Long-term region-wide declines in Caribbean corals. Science. 2003;301(5635):958-960.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adamowicz Z, Zbierski P. Logic of Mathematics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1997.

An edited book

Cardoso J, Guerra F, Houben GJ, Pinto AM, Velegrakis Y, eds. Semantic Keyword-Based Search on Structured Data Sources: First COST Action IC1302 International KEYSTONE Conference, IKC 2015, Coimbra, Portugal, September 8-9, 2015. Revised Selected Papers. Vol 9398. Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Lin P. Why Ethics Matters for Autonomous Cars. In: Maurer M, Gerdes JC, Lenz B, Winner H, eds. Autonomous Driving: Technical, Legal and Social Aspects. Springer; 2016:69-85.

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 Addiction Biology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Martian Volcanism May Have Shaped A Region As Big As North America. IFLScience. September 28, 2016.

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 Projects: Extent of Projects with Unobligated Balances of Greater Than 85 Percent as of August 16, 2002. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Morgan TM. Do You See What I See? How Symbol Integration Facilitates Responsibility to Self and Culture. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute; 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

Traub J. Think Locally, Act Locally. New York Times. October 11, 2017:BR19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Addiction Biology
Abbreviation	Addict. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1355-6215
ISSN (online)	1369-1600
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Psychiatry and Mental health Pharmacology