How to format your references using the Psychoneuroendocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychoneuroendocrinology. 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

Dixon, K.W., 2009. Pollination and restoration. Science 325, 571–573.

A journal article with 2 authors

Luo, Z.-X., Wible, J.R., 2005. A Late Jurassic digging mammal and early mammalian diversification. Science 308, 103–107.

A journal article with 3 authors

Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L., Loewenstein, G., 2015. Privacy and human behavior in the age of information. Science 347, 509–514.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kubikova, L., Bosikova, E., Cvikova, M., Lukacova, K., Scharff, C., Jarvis, E.D., 2014. Basal ganglia function, stuttering, sequencing, and repair in adult songbirds. Sci. Rep. 4, 6590.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Calloway, J., 2009. Becoming a Category of One. Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Woodruff, T.K., Zoloth, L., Campo-Engelstein, L., Rodriguez, S. (Eds.), 2010. Oncofertility: Ethical, Legal, Social, and Medical Perspectives, Cancer Treatment and Research. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Mao, C., Qin, S.F., Wright, D., 2007. Sketching-Out Virtual Humans: A Smart Interface for Human Modelling and Animation, in: Butz, A., Fisher, B., Krüger, A., Olivier, P., Owada, S. (Eds.), Smart Graphics: 8th International Symposium, SG 2007, Kyoto, Japan, June 25-27, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 36–48.

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 Psychoneuroendocrinology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Imposter Nanosponges Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Infection [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/nanosponges-fights-antibiotic-resistant-infection/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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

Government Accountability Office, 2000. Information Technology: Selected Agencies’ Use of Commercial Off-the-Shelf Software for Human Resources Functions (No. AIMD-00-270). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Adams, A.W., 2013. Shepherd leadership of Church of God pastors and how this relates to ministerial effectiveness (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Baker, L., 2009. Optimism in the Mormon Heartland. New York Times B6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Dixon, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Dixon, 2009; Luo and Wible, 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Luo and Wible, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Kubikova et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychoneuroendocrinology
Abbreviation	Psychoneuroendocrinology
ISSN (print)	0306-4530
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Psychiatry and Mental health Biological Psychiatry Endocrine and Autonomic Systems