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

Kaiser J: PLANT GENETICS:From Genome to Functional Genomics. Science 2000; 288(5472): 1715a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wahl ER, Morrill C: Climate change. Toward understanding and predicting monsoon patterns. Science 2010; 328(5977): 437–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schuch R, Nelson D, Fischetti VA: A bacteriolytic agent that detects and kills Bacillus anthracis. Nature 2002; 418(6900): 884–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Vaquero A, Scher M, Erdjument-Bromage H, Tempst P, Serrano L, Reinberg D: SIRT1 regulates the histone methyl-transferase SUV39H1 during heterochromatin formation. Nature 2007; 450(7168): 440–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moorhouse M, Barry P: Bioinformatics Biocomputing and Perl. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Huang D-S, Han K, Hussain A, editors.: Intelligent Computing Methodologies: 12th International Conference, ICIC 2016, Lanzhou, China, August 2-5, 2016, Proceedings, Part III. vol. 9773. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Capern AL: Jane Lead and the Tradition of Puritan Pastoral Theology. In: Hessayon A, editor. Jane Lead and her Transnational Legacy. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. p. 91–117.

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

Fang J: How Hefty Dinosaurs Didn’t Crush Their Own Eggs. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-hefty-dinosaurs-didnt-crush-their-own-eggs/. 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: Review of Army’s Efforts To Develop TACFIRE. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Viramontes M: Parenting styles and practices and their impact on school behavior. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2009.

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

Vecsey G: Success and Scandal Can Leave Everyone Weary. New York Times 2011: SP7.

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