How to format your references using the Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics citation style

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

Vohs KD. Psychology. The poor’s poor mental power. Science. 2013 Aug;341(6149):969–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

Metzger CH, Karrai K. Cavity cooling of a microlever. Nature. 2004 Dec;432(7020):1002–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lindenmayer DB, Laurance WF, Franklin JF. Ecology. Global decline in large old trees. Science. 2012 Dec;338(6112):1305–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li J, Li X, Zhai H-J, Wang L-S. Au20: a tetrahedral cluster. Science. 2003 Feb;299(5608):864–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Askoolum A. System Building with APL + Win. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2007.

An edited book

Bennett A. Popular Music Scenes and Cultural Memory. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Cao Z. A Complete Probabilistic Belief Logic. In: Inoue K, Satoh K, Toni F, editors. Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems: 7th International Workshop, CLIMA VII, Hakodate, Japan, May 8-9, 2006, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007; pp 80–94.

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 Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.

Blog post

Andrew E. The Anthropocene Has Been Shaped By The Media And Our Digital Lives [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Feb

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. Improved Management of Computer Resources Needed To Enhance Marine Corps’ Efficiency and Effectiveness. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Keep AW. A nanopass framework for commercial compiler development. 2013

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

Grynbaum MM. They’re Like a Sitcom. Really. New York Times. 2017 May;C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
Abbreviation	Psychother. Psychosom.
ISSN (print)	0033-3190
ISSN (online)	1423-0348
Scope	General Medicine Psychiatry and Mental health Applied Psychology Clinical Psychology