Study	Reason for exclusion
Anthenelli 2014	Type of participants not in the inclusion criteria: no depression
Arnow 2015	Type of participants not in the inclusion criteria: no alcohol dependence
Balaratnasingam 2011	Data of single group not available
Bandati 2013	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group
Batki 2015	Type of participants and type of intervention not in the inclusion criteria: no depression, no use of antidepressant medications
Bowman 1966	Type of intervention not in the inclusion criteria: no antidepressant medications used
Brewer 2015	Type of participants and type of intervention not in the inclusion criteria: no depression, no alcohol dependence; no antidepressant medications used
Brown 2003	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group
Brunelin 2014	Type of participants and type of intervention not in the inclusion criteria: no alcohol dependence; no antidepressant medications used
Charney 2015	Type of participants not in the inclusion criteria: only 22% of participants had depression (single data of these participants not available)
Charnoff 1967	Type of participants not in the inclusion criteria: no depression
Chick 2004b	Type of participants not in the inclusion criteria: no depression
Clark 2003	Study population not in the inclusion criteria: people aged < 18 years
Cornelius 1993	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group
Cornelius 2011	Type of participants not in the inclusion criteria: people aged < 18 years
Cornelius 2012	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group
Davis 2005	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group
Desai 1999	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no randomised trial
Douglas 1996	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: commentary on Mason 1996
Eriksson 2001	Type of participants not in the inclusion criteria: no alcohol dependence. Only 73% of recruited participants with alcohol dependence; data of these participants not reported.
Farren 1999	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: case report
Foulds 2016	Commentary
García‐Portilla 2005	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group
Glasner‐Edwards 2007	Type of intervention not in the inclusion criteria: the name of the antidepressant medication used was not indicated
Gorelick 1992	Type of participants not in the inclusion criteria: no alcohol dependence
Grelotti 2014	Type of participants not in the inclusion criteria: no alcohol dependence
Han 2013	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group for the antidepressant. Study compared the efficacy of aripripazole plus escitalopram to escitalopram in reducing the severity of depression and craving for alcohol in people with alcohol dependence and depression.
Hautzinger 2005	Type of participants not in the inclusion criteria: no depression
Ionescu 2011	Lack of information: number of patients for each group; time of collected data (1 month, 3 months, or 6 months?)
Ivanets 1998	Type of participants not in the inclusion criteria: no depression
Janiri 1996	Type of participants not in the inclusion criteria: no depression
Janiri 1997	Type of participants not in the inclusion criteria: no depression
Kalyoncu 2007	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group
Kranzler 1995	Type of participants not in the inclusion criteria: no alcohol dependence. Only 14% of recruited participants with alcohol dependence; data of these participants not reported.
Kranzler 2011	Type of participants not in the inclusion criteria: no depression
Krupitsky 2013	Data on severity of depression, craving for alcohol, and consumption of alcohol were reported to be improved but not provided as score achieved in the different scales used
Krystal 2008	Type of intervention not in the inclusion criteria: the name of antidepressant medications was not indicated.
Labbate 2004	Study design not in the inclusion criteria. No control group for the antidepressant. Study compared the efficacy of sertraline in people with post‐traumatic stress disorder and alcohol dependence with comorbid anxiety or depression to that in people with post‐traumatic stress disorder and alcohol dependence but without comorbid anxiety or depression.
Lee 2012	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group for the antidepressant. Study compared the efficacy of aripripazole plus escitalopram to escitalopram in reducing the severity of depression and craving for alcohol in people with alcohol dependence and depression.
Liappas 2004	Type of participants not in the inclusion criteria: no depression
Macher 1991	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group
Malka 1992	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group
Marey 1991	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: review
Mason 1999	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group for the antidepressant. Study compared the efficacy of naltrexone plus sertraline to sertraline in reducing the severity of depression and alcohol consumption in people with alcohol dependence and depression.
Naranjo 1997	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: statistical elaboration of previous studies
Oslin 2005	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group for the antidepressant. Study compared the efficacy of naltrexone plus sertraline to sertraline in reducing the severity of depression and alcohol consumption in people with alcohol dependence and depression.
Overall 1973	Type of participants not in the inclusion criteria: no depression
Powell 1995	Type of participants not in the inclusion criteria: no depression
Ruiz‐Mellott 2005	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group
Saatcioglu 2005	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group
Salloum 2011	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group
Salloum 2013	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group
Schottenfeld 1989	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group
Shaw 1975	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group for the antidepressant. Study compared the efficacy of chlordiazepoxide plus imipramine to placebo.
Witte 2012	Study design not in the inclusion criteria: no control group for the antidepressant. Study compared the efficacy of acamprosate plus escitalopram to escitalopram in reducing the severity of depression and alcohol consumption in people with alcohol dependence and depression.