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

Ma X: Palaeontology: Hallucigenia’s head. Nature 2015; 523(7558): 38–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richardson MI, Wilson RJ: A topographically forced asymmetry in the martian circulation and climate. Nature 2002; 416(6878): 298–301.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fine PVA, Mesones I, Coley PD: Herbivores promote habitat specialization by trees in Amazonian forests. Science 2004; 305(5684): 663–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Meyer JC, Girit CO, Crommie MF, Zettl A: Imaging and dynamics of light atoms and molecules on graphene. Nature 2008; 454(7202): 319–22.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Calloway J: Work Like You’re Showing Off! Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

Pan J-S, Krömer P, Snášel V, editors.: Genetic and Evolutionary Computing: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, ICGEC 2013, August 25 - 27, 2013 - Prague, Czech Republic. vol. 238. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Zalba PE, Morosi ME, Conconi MS: Lobería County. In: Morosi ME, and Conconi MS, editors. Gondwana Industrial Clays: Tandilia System, Argentina-Geology and Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 93–105.

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: Kepler Telescope Back With New Exoplanet Discovery. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/kepler-back-new-exoplanet/. 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: ADP Planning: Allegations of Inadequate Procurements at the National Archives. 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

Haigh CV: More Than Skin Deep: The Impact of Self-Esteem, Desire for Lighter Skin, and Gender on the Mental Health of University Students in Thailand. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

Shpigel B: While Nashville Parties, the Predators Cut Loose. New York Times 2017: 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