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. Kazazian HH Jr. Mobile elements: drivers of genome evolution. Science. 2004;303:1626–32.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Meldrum DR, Holl MR. Tech.Sight. Microfluidics. Microscale bioanalytical systems. Science. 2002;297:1197–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Cai Y, Zhang G, Zhang Y-W. Layer-dependent band alignment and work function of few-layer phosphorene. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6677.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Shcheprova Z, Baldi S, Frei SB, Gonnet G, Barral Y. A mechanism for asymmetric segregation of age during yeast budding. Nature. 2008;454:728–34.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Provost JJ, Colabroy KL, Kelly BS, Wallert MA. The Science of Cooking. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

1. Giardini F, Amblard F, editors. Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XIII: International Workshop, MABS 2012, Valencia, Spain, June 4-8, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Manevitch LI, Gendelman OV. Continuous Systems. In: Gendelman OV, editor. Tractable Models of Solid Mechanics: Formulation, Analysis and Interpretation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 237–93.

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. Andrew E. 2.7 billion-year old fossilised raindrops [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/27-billion-year-old-fossilised-raindrops/

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. Regulatory Programs: Opportunities to Enhance Oversight of the Real Estate Appraisal Industry. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Mar. Report No.: GAO-04-580T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Buckley KM. Diversity and evolution of 185/333, an immune -related gene family from the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2008.

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. Philipps D, Hubbard B. U.S. Soldier Who Survived Fatal Attack by a Jordanian Tells His Story. New York Times. 2017 Jul 25;A6.

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

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