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

Ritson D. Fuel for thought. Nature. 2003;421:575–76.

A journal article with 2 authors

Subramanian MA, Manzer LE. A “greener” synthetic route for fluoroaromatics via copper (II) fluoride. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2002;297:1665.

A journal article with 3 authors

Müller K, Faeh C, Diederich F. Fluorine in pharmaceuticals: looking beyond intuition. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2007;317:1881–86.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bachman ES, Dhillon H, Zhang C-Y, Cinti S, Bianco AC, Kobilka BK, Lowell BB. betaAR signaling required for diet-induced thermogenesis and obesity resistance. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2002;297:843–45.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gao J. Optoelectronic Integrated Circuit Design and Device Modeling. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

Li D-W, editor. Biology of Microfungi. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XIV, 650 p. 101 illus., 93 illus. in color. (Fungal Biology).

A chapter in an edited book

Poels G, Gailly F, Maes A, Paemeleire R. Object Class or Association Class? Testing the User Effect on Cardinality Interpretation. In: Akoka J, Liddle SW, Song I-Y, Bertolotto M, Comyn-Wattiau I, Heuvel W-J van D, Kolp M, Trujillo J, Kop C, Mayr HC, editors. Perspectives in Conceptual Modeling: ER 2005 Workshops AOIS, BP-UML, CoMoGIS, eCOMO, and QoIS, Klagenfurt, Austria, October 24-28, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. p. 33–42. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, Naor M, Nierstrasz O, Pandu Rangan C, Steffen B, Sudan M, Terzopoulos D, Tygar D, Vardi MY, Weikum G, editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

Taub B. TripAdvisor To Stop Selling Tickets To Irresponsible Wildlife Attractions. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/tripadvisor-stop-selling-tickets-irresponsible-wildlife-attractions/

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. NASA: Major Management Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Jul. Report No.: T-NSIAD-97-178.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nguyen C. A psychoeducational support group for Vietnamese American family caregivers of stroke survivors: Grant writing thesis proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Daoud K. What Arabs Have Learned From Syria’s War. New York Times. 2017;SR9.

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