How to format your references using the Psychosomatics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychosomatics (PSYM). 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

Mackinnon R: Structural biology. Voltage sensor meets lipid membrane. Science 2004; 306(5700): 1304–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baell J, Walters MA: Chemistry: Chemical con artists foil drug discovery. Nature 2014; 513(7519): 481–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cossart R, Aronov D, Yuste R: Attractor dynamics of network UP states in the neocortex. Nature 2003; 423(6937): 283–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Henry Huang XM, Zorman CA, Mehregany M, Roukes ML: Nanoelectromechanical systems: Nanodevice motion at microwave frequencies. Nature 2003; 421(6922): 496.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reed SM, Hrci: The HRCI Official Body of Knowledge. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2017.

An edited book

Dhiman S, Marques J, editors.: Spirituality and Sustainability: New Horizons and Exemplary Approaches. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Merz C: Incubating Micro Enterprises in Rural South Africa – The Use Case of Virtual Buying Cooperatives. In: Picot A, and Lorenz J, editors. ICT for the Next Five Billion People: Information and Communication for Sustainable Development. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 35–45.

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 Psychosomatics.

Blog post

Luntz S: Bronze Age “World War Zero” Could Have Wiped Out A Mysterious Civilization. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/claims-bronze-age-world-war-zero/. 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

Government Accountability Office: Wallop-Breaux Trust Fund. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Perry EM: Live and let live: Negotiating difference in a diverse urban neighborhood. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 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

DE WITT with MICHAEL KELLY K: THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Candidate’s Record; Perot Pursued Charges Against Official for Years. New York Times 1992: 118.

In-text citations

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

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	Psychosomatics
Abbreviation	Psychosomatics
ISSN (print)	0033-3182
ISSN (online)	1545-7206
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Psychiatry and Mental health Applied Psychology