How to format your references using the Psychoneuroendocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychoneuroendocrinology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Grayson, M., 2010. Chagas disease. Nature 465, S3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lin, M.T., Beal, M.F., 2006. Mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress in neurodegenerative diseases. Nature 443, 787–795.

A journal article with 3 authors

Finnegan, N.J., Schumer, R., Finnegan, S., 2014. A signature of transience in bedrock river incision rates over timescales of 10(4)-10(7) years. Nature 505, 391–394.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bradshaw, G.A., Schore, A.N., Brown, J.L., Poole, J.H., Moss, C.J., 2005. Elephant breakdown. Nature 433, 807.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yan, W., 2014. Crop Variety Trials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Schwartz, D.D., 2015. Healthcare Partnerships for Pediatric Adherence: Promoting Collaborative Management for Pediatric Chronic Illness Care, SpringerBriefs in Public Health. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, R., Zhang, H., Yang, Z., 2013. How Does a Researcher Become an Entrepreneur in the High-Tech Industrial Cluster? A Case Study, in: Ferreira, J.J.M., Raposo, M., Rutten, R., Varga, A. (Eds.), Cooperation, Clusters, and Knowledge Transfer: Universities and Firms Towards Regional Competitiveness, Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 59–80.

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 Psychoneuroendocrinology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2015. Scientists Discover New Phase Of Matter [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-ordered-phase-matter-discovered/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1964. Comments on NASA’s Expenditure of Appropriated Funds for Parking Spaces (No. B-155372-O.M.). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ivy, R., 2017. Regional Subsurface Investigation of the Uppermost Cretaceous of Northern Louisiana (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Saslow, L., 2007. Village Wants Restaurant Wastewater Degreased. New York Times 14LI2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Grayson, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Grayson, 2010; Lin and Beal, 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Lin and Beal, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Bradshaw et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychoneuroendocrinology
Abbreviation	Psychoneuroendocrinology
ISSN (print)	0306-4530
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Psychiatry and Mental health Biological Psychiatry Endocrine and Autonomic Systems