How to format your references using the Addictive Behaviors citation style

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

Ashcroft, F. M. (2006). From molecule to malady. Nature, 440(7083), 440–447.

A journal article with 2 authors

Breitkreutz, A., & Tyers, M. (2006). Cell signaling. A sophisticated scaffold wields a new trick. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5762), 789–790.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hopkins, M., Harrison, T. M., & Manning, C. E. (2008). Low heat flow inferred from >4 Gyr zircons suggests Hadean plate boundary interactions. Nature, 456(7221), 493–496.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Bai, L.-P., Hagihara, M., Nakatani, K., & Jiang, Z.-H. (2014). Recognition of chelerythrine to human telomeric DNA and RNA G-quadruplexes. Scientific Reports, 4, 6767.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chateigner, D. (2013). Combined Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Holzinger, A., & Pasi, G. (Eds.). (2013). Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge Discovery in Complex, Unstructured, Big Data: Third International Workshop, HCI-KDD 2013, Held at SouthCHI 2013, Maribor, Slovenia, July 1-3, 2013. Proceedings (Vol. 7947). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Guveli, A., Ganzeboom, H. B. G., Platt, L., Nauck, B., Baykara-Krumme, H., Eroğlu, Ş., Bayrakdar, S., Sözeri, E. K., & Spierings, N. (2016). Educational Attainment. In H. B. G. Ganzeboom, L. Platt, B. Nauck, H. Baykara-Krumme, Ş. Eroğlu, S. Bayrakdar, E. K. Sözeri, & N. Spierings (Eds.), Intergenerational Consequences of Migration: Socio-economic, Family and Cultural Patterns of Stability and Change in Turkey and Europe (pp. 71–89). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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 Addictive Behaviors.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, March 17). 20,000 Volts Of Electrical Energy Plus A Watermelon Creates A Wonderful Bang. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/20000-volts-of-electrical-energy-plus-a-watermelon-creates-a-wonderful-bang/

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. (1996). States’ Average College Tuition (HEHS-96-213R). 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

Thomas, L. E. (2017). Youth Art Ambassadors: A Youth Participatory Action Research Project Using Social Justice to Incite Change in Classrooms where Teachers Teach Young People of Color [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

Risen, J. (2016, December 18). Hussein, the C.I.A. and Me. 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 (Ashcroft, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Ashcroft, 2006; Breitkreutz & Tyers, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Breitkreutz & Tyers, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Bai et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Addictive Behaviors
Abbreviation	Addict. Behav.
ISSN (print)	0306-4603
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Psychiatry and Mental health Toxicology Clinical Psychology