How to format your references using the Addictive Behaviors Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Addictive Behaviors Reports. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Service, R. F. (2008). Structural biology. Protein structure initiative: phase 3 or phase out. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5870), 1610–1613.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stocker, T. F., & Plattner, G.-K. (2014). Climate policy: Rethink IPCC reports. Nature, 513(7517), 163–165.

A journal article with 3 authors

Donato, F., Rompani, S. B., & Caroni, P. (2013). Parvalbumin-expressing basket-cell network plasticity induced by experience regulates adult learning. Nature, 504(7479), 272–276.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Capito, R. M., Azevedo, H. S., Velichko, Y. S., Mata, A., & Stupp, S. I. (2008). Self-assembly of large and small molecules into hierarchically ordered sacs and membranes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5871), 1812–1816.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox, D. A. (2004). Galois Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Verl, A., Albu-Schäffer, A., Brock, O., & Raatz, A. (Eds.). (2015). Soft Robotics: Transferring Theory to Application. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chang, T.-C., Lee, J.-D., Huang, C.-H., Wu, T., Chen, C.-J., & Wu, S.-J. (2006). The Diagnostic Application of Brain Image Processing and Analysis System for Ischemic Stroke. In G. Bebis, R. Boyle, B. Parvin, D. Koracin, P. Remagnino, A. Nefian, G. Meenakshisundaram, V. Pascucci, J. Zara, J. Molineros, H. Theisel, & T. Malzbender (Eds.), Advances in Visual Computing: Second International Symposium, ISVC 2006 Lake Tahoe, NV, USA, November 6-8, 2006. Proceedings, Part II (pp. 31–38). Springer.

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 Reports.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 30). Watch This Robotic Insect Jump On Water. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/watch-robotic-insect-jump-water/

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. (1981). A Bibliography of Documents Issued by the GAO on Matters Related to: Health (OISS-81-8). 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

Houger, V. P. (2011). Generational differences and the impact to employee engagement: A program design [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella University.

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

Baker, L. (2007, October 21). A Canadian Condo Boom. New York Times, 1111.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Service, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Service, 2008; Stocker & Plattner, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Stocker & Plattner, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Capito et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Addictive Behaviors Reports
Abbreviation	Addict. Behav. Rep.
ISSN (print)	2352-8532
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