How to format your references using the Journal of Psychosomatic Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 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 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]

H. Linden, Circadian rhythms. A white collar protein senses blue light, Science 297 (2002) 777–778.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.A. Minton, R. Malhotra, A record of planet migration in the main asteroid belt, Nature 457 (2009) 1109–1111.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.W. Oppo, J.F. McManus, J.L. Cullen, Palaeo-oceanography: Deepwater variability in the Holocene epoch, Nature 422 (2003) 277.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Z. Su, L. Li, H. Peng, J. Kurths, J. Xiao, Y. Yang, Robustness of interrelated traffic networks to cascading failures, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5413.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Taylor, Handbook of Retinal Screening in Diabetes, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

A. Agrawal, Biomonitoring of Water and Waste Water, Springer India, New Delhi, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V.J. Sosa-Sosa, I. Lopez-Arevalo, O. Jasso-Luna, H. Fraire-Huacuja, Distributed Implementation of an Intelligent Data Classifier, in: P. Melin, J. Kacprzyk, W. Pedrycz (Eds.), Soft Computing for Recognition Based on Biometrics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 73–82.

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 Journal of Psychosomatic Research.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, 17-Million-Year-Old Whale Fossil Gives Hints To The Dawn Of Humanity, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/17-million-year-old-whale-fossil-suggests-when-primates-became-bipedal/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Risk Management: Further Refinements Needed to Assess Risks and Prioritize Protective Measures at Ports and Other Critical Infrastructure, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N.A. Walker, Mothers’ description of raising two children with an autism spectrum disorder: A case study, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2010.

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]

J. Risen, What Cold War Intrigue Can Tell Us About the Trump-Russia Inquiry, New York Times (2017) A20.

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	Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Abbreviation	J. Psychosom. Res.
ISSN (print)	0022-3999
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology