How to format your references using the BioPsychoSocial Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BioPsychoSocial Medicine. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

1. Kaiser J. American Society of Gene Therapy meeting. Retroviral vectors: a double-edged sword. Science. 2005;308:1735–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Mulligan SJ, MacVicar BA. Calcium transients in astrocyte endfeet cause cerebrovascular constrictions. Nature. 2004;431:195–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Robinson GE, Fernald RD, Clayton DF. Genes and social behavior. Science. 2008;322:896–900.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hu J, Wu F, Wu S, Lam CL, Lin X, Wong MH. Biochar and Glomus caledonium influence Cd accumulation of upland kangkong (Ipomoea aquatica Forsk.) intercropped with Alfred stonecrop (Sedum alfredii Hance). Sci Rep. 2014;4:4671.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Schwedt G. Zuckersüße Chemie. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

1. Sun J, Liu J, Fan S, Wang F, editors. China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2016 Proceedings: Volume II. Singapore: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hatzfeld C, Kern TA. Development of Haptic Systems. In: Hatzfeld C, Kern TA, editors. Engineering Haptic Devices: A Beginner’s Guide. London: Springer; 2014. p. 125–41.

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 BioPsychoSocial Medicine.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Irradiated Monkeys Showing Fukushima Effects [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/irradiated-monkeys-showing-fukushima-effects/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Computer Misuse by the Sigma Corporation, a NASA Contractor. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Sep. Report No.: PSAD-78-148.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Curry M. Students’ perceptions of entrepreneurship at a historically black university in central Mississippi [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 2012.

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

1. TERRI LYNN KELLY; As told to Amy Zipkin. Making the Suit Fit. New York Times. 2006 Feb 19;39.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	BioPsychoSocial Medicine
Abbreviation	Biopsychosoc. Med.
ISSN (online)	1751-0759
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Biological Psychiatry General Psychology Social Psychology