How to format your references using the Psychosocial Intervention citation style

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

Lodge, J. (2005). Scientists and societies. Postdoc power. Nature, 435(7039), 244.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koechlin, E., & Hyafil, A. (2007). Anterior prefrontal function and the limits of human decision-making. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5850), 594–598.

A journal article with 3 authors

McQuibban, G. A., Saurya, S., & Freeman, M. (2003). Mitochondrial membrane remodelling regulated by a conserved rhomboid protease. Nature, 423(6939), 537–541.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Raisbeck, G. M., Yiou, F., Cattani, O., & Jouzel, J. (2006). 10Be evidence for the Matuyama-Brunhes geomagnetic reversal in the EPICA Dome C ice core. Nature, 444(7115), 82–84.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raynaud, H., & Arrow, K. J. (2011). Managerial Logic. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Oshri, I., Kotlarsky, J., & Willcocks, L. P. (Eds.). (2015). Achieving Success and Innovation in Global Sourcing: Perspectives and Practices: 9th Global Sourcing Workshop 2015, La Thuile, Italy, February 18-21, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (1st ed. 2015, Vol. 236). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Gaudioso, V. (2010). Layout Controls: Including the New Silverlight 4 Controls: Viewbox, RichTextBox, FlowDirection Property, and Improved Data Binding. In T. Brown, B. Renow-Clarke, C. Collins, C. Andres, S. Anglin, M. Beckner, E. Buckingham, G. Cornell, J. Gennick, J. Hassell, M. Lowman, M. Moodie, D. Parkes, J. Pepper, F. Pohlmann, D. Pundick, D. Shakeshaft, M. Wade, & T. Welsh (Eds.), Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight (pp. 71–94). Apress.

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 Psychosocial Intervention.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 23). New Artificial Pancreas Could Be A Life Changer For Type 1 Diabetics. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/artificial-pancreas-could-be-life-changer-type-1-diabetics/

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. (1992). Amtrak: Information on Amtrak’s Operating Expenses (RCED-92-177FS). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chellamuthu, V. K. (2015). Structured Population Models: Numerical Methods and Application to Frogs Infected with Chytridiomycosis [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Medina, J., Pérez-Peña, R., & Goldman, A. (2017, October 4). Meticulous Plan To Rain Carnage On Concertgoers. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lodge, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Koechlin & Hyafil, 2007; Lodge, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Koechlin & Hyafil, 2007)
Three authors: (McQuibban et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Raisbeck et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychosocial Intervention
Abbreviation	Interv. Psicosoc.
ISSN (print)	1132-0559
Scope	Applied Psychology Developmental and Educational Psychology Social Psychology