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. Brody H. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Nature. 2012;489:S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lee AJ, You L. Cell biology. Cells listen to their inner voice. Science. 2014;343:624–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Davidson EM, Frothingham R, Cook-Deegan R. Science and security. Practical experiences in dual-use review. Science. 2007;316:1432–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yu L, Liu J, Wu K, Klein T, Jiang Y, Wang J-P. Evaluation of hyperthermia of magnetic nanoparticles by dehydrating DNA. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7216.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Allen M. Foundations of Forensic Document Analysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Carels N, Sujatha M, Bahadur B, editors. Jatropha, Challenges for a New Energy Crop: Volume 1: Farming, Economics and Biofuel. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Mather JN. On the Homology of Haefliger’s Classifying Space. In: Villani V, editor. Differential Topology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 71–116.

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. Hale T. Thieves Accidentally Steal Bottles Of Stoat Anal Gland Oil From Conservation Company. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Status of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Modernization Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985 Jul. Report No.: NSIAD-85-78.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hobbs E. Rehearing Florence Price: A Closer Look at Her Symphony in E Minor [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Greenhouse L. Sect Allowed to Import Its Hallucinogenic Tea. New York Times. 2006 Feb 22;A14.

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