How to format your references using the Psychosomatic Medicine citation style

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

Dennis C. Baiting plan to remove fox threat to Tasmanian wildlife. Nature. 2002;416:357.

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Dell CR, Townsley LK. Astronomy. Orion continues to surprise. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2008;319:289–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scarf D, Hayne H, Colombo M. Pigeons on par with primates in numerical competence. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2011;334:1664.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Valla T, Fedorov AV, Lee J, Davis JC, Gu GD. The ground state of the pseudogap in cuprate superconductors. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2006;314:1914–16.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wempen F. Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2010 Bible. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Aletti G, Micheletti A, Morale D, Burger M, editors. Math Everywhere: Deterministic and Stochastic Modelling in Biomedicine, Economics and Industry. Dedicated to the 60th Birthday of Vincenzo Capasso. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. XVIII, 330 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Lacomme L, Demazeau Y, Dugdale J. CLIC: An Agent-Based Interactive and Autonomous Piece of Art. In: Demazeau Y, Dignum F, Corchado JM, Pérez JB, editors. Advances in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems: 8th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems (PAAMS 2010). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 25–34. (Kacprzyk J, editor. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing).

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 Psychosomatic Medicine.

Blog post

Fang J. Drugs for Depression and Heart Disease Find a New Calling: Fighting Ebola. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/drugs-depression-and-heart-disease-find-new-calling-fighting-ebola/

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. Internal Control Management and Evaluation Tool: Exposure Draft (Superseded by GAO-01-1008G). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001 Feb. Report No.: GAO-01-131G.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sachdev NA. An Evaluation of the District of Columbia Summer Youth Employment Program [Doctoral dissertation]. Washington, DC: George Washington University; 2012.

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

Gottlieb S, Emanuel EJ. No, There Won’t Be a Doctor Shortage. New York Times. 2013;A35.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Psychosomatic Medicine
Abbreviation	Psychosom. Med.
ISSN (print)	0033-3174
ISSN (online)	1534-7796
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Applied Psychology