How to format your references using the Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology citation style

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

Pauly, D. (2007). Obituary: Ransom Aldrich Myers (1952-2007). Nature, 447(7141), 160.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pomerantz, R. T., & O’Donnell, M. (2010). Direct restart of a replication fork stalled by a head-on RNA polymerase. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5965), 590–592.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yang, C., Zhong, Z., & Lieber, C. M. (2005). Encoding electronic properties by synthesis of axial modulation-doped silicon nanowires. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5752), 1304–1307.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Berriman, A. C., Hinde, D. J., Dasgupta, M., Morton, C. R., Butt, R. D., & Newton, J. O. (2001). Unexpected inhibition of fusion in nucleus-nucleus collisions. Nature, 413(6852), 144–147.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee. (2007). Positive Displacement Pumps. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Evans, A. M., Flatman, J. C., & Flemming, N. C. (Eds.). (2014). Prehistoric Archaeology on the Continental Shelf: A Global Review. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Emmanuel, J. J., & Coppack, S. W. (2016). Health Consequences–Obesity Associated Comorbidities. In S. Agrawal (Ed.), Obesity, Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery: A Practical Guide (pp. 29–38). Springer International Publishing.

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 Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, September 19). A Nazi Time Capsule Has Been Unearthed At A Former Training Camp. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/a-nazi-time-capsule-has-been-unearthed-at-a-former-training-camp/

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. (1991). Transition From School to Work: Linking Education and Worksite Training (HRD-91-105). 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

Tengco, M. A. (2017). Quality Home Care: Providing Personal Care and Homemaking Services for Seniors in the Community [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

JULIA C. MEAD; Linda Saslow contributed reporting for this article. (2006, April 30). A Grieving Family Questions a Police Policy. New York Times, 14LI7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pauly, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Pauly, 2007; Pomerantz & O’Donnell, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Pomerantz & O’Donnell, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Berriman et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
Abbreviation	Exp. Clin. Psychopharmacol.
ISSN (print)	1064-1297
ISSN (online)	1936-2293
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Psychiatry and Mental health Pharmacology