How to format your references using the Psychopharmacology citation style

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

Lang RF (2010) Astronomy. Fishing for the universe. Science 327:1582–1583

A journal article with 2 authors

Jacob L, Lum L (2007) Deconstructing the hedgehog pathway in development and disease. Science 318:66–68

A journal article with 3 authors

Halazonetis TD, Gorgoulis VG, Bartek J (2008) An oncogene-induced DNA damage model for cancer development. Science 319:1352–1355

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rapp M, Seppälä S, Granseth E, von Heijne G (2007) Emulating membrane protein evolution by rational design. Science 315:1282–1284

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kovalenko NP, Krasny YP, Krey U (2005) Physics of Amorphous Metals. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Hameurlain A, Küng J, Wagner R (eds) (2013) Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems IX. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Battaglia E (2009) Fisiopatologia dell’annegamento. In: Baghin A (ed) Annegamento Soccorso tecnico e sanitario. Springer, Milano, pp 59–63

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 Psychopharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Museum Launches Campaign To Save Neil Armstrong’s Spacesuit. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/museum-launches-campaign-save-neil-armstrong-s-spacesuit/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1998) National Airspace System: Status of Wide Area Augmentation System Project. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tripathi RB (2008) Oligodendrogensis Following Experimental Spinal Cord Injury. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

Protess B, Eder S (2017) Donating Profits From Foreign Officials Is Complicated Task, Trump Group Says. New York Times A17

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lang 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Jacob and Lum 2007; Lang 2010).

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

Two authors: (Jacob and Lum 2007)
Three or more authors: (Rapp et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychopharmacology
Abbreviation	Psychopharmacology (Berl.)
ISSN (print)	0033-3158
ISSN (online)	1432-2072
Scope	Pharmacology