How to format your references using the Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 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

Brody H (2011) Influenza. Nature 480:S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yun MH, Hiom K (2009) CtIP-BRCA1 modulates the choice of DNA double-strand-break repair pathway throughout the cell cycle. Nature 459:460–463.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gauld SB, Dal Porto JM, Cambier JC (2002) B cell antigen receptor signaling: roles in cell development and disease. Science 296:1641–1642.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zheng X-T, You H-L, Xu X, Dong Z-M (2009) An Early Cretaceous heterodontosaurid dinosaur with filamentous integumentary structures. Nature 458:333–336.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abran A (2015) Software Project Estimation. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Onishi Y, Voitsekhovich OV, Zheleznyak MJ (Eds.) (2007) Chernobyl – What Have We Learned?: The Successes and Failures to Mitigate Water Contamination over 20 Years, Environmental Pollution. Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Jiang Z (2005) Routing in 2-D Meshes: A Tutorial In: Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications: Third International Symposium, ISPA 2005, Nanjing, China, November 2-5, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Pan Y, Chen D, Guo M, Cao J, Dongarra J eds), pp 19–20. Berlin, Heidelberg, 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 Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

Blog post

Andrews R (2017) Australian Trees And Termite Mounds Hint At Hidden Gold Caches. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/australian-trees-termite-mounds-hint-hidden-gold-caches/ Accessed October 30, 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 (1980) Community-Based Correctional Programs Can Do More To Help Offenders (No. GGD-80-25). Washington, DC, 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

Barrett C (2010) Racial congruence and its effects on social integration and school involvement: A multi-level model (Doctoral dissertation). College Park, MD, 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

Bilefsky D, Chan S (2017) Dispute Over British Baby’s Fate Draws In President and Pope. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brody, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Brody, 2011; Yun and Hiom, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Yun and Hiom, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zheng et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
Abbreviation	Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res.
ISSN (online)	1530-0277
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Psychiatry and Mental health Toxicology