How to format your references using the Psychosocial Intervention citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychosocial Intervention. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Lowry, A. R. (2006). Resonant slow fault slip in subduction zones forced by climatic load stress. Nature, 442(7104), 802–805.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bork, P., & Copley, R. (2001). Genome speak. Nature, 409(6822), 815.

A journal article with 3 authors

Neil, S. J. D., Zang, T., & Bieniasz, P. D. (2008). Tetherin inhibits retrovirus release and is antagonized by HIV-1 Vpu. Nature, 451(7177), 425–430.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Korobkova, E., Emonet, T., Vilar, J. M. G., Shimizu, T. S., & Cluzel, P. (2004). From molecular noise to behavioural variability in a single bacterium. Nature, 428(6982), 574–578.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Braha, A., & Groza, G. (2006). Moderne Abwassertechnik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Turner, B. (Ed.). (2012). The Statesman’s Yearbook: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World 2013. Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Sommestad, T., & Hallberg, J. (2012). Cyber Security Exercises and Competitions as a Platform for Cyber Security Experiments. In A. Jøsang & B. Carlsson (Eds.), Secure IT Systems: 17th Nordic Conference, NordSec 2012, Karlskrona, Sweden, October 31 – November 2, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 47–60). Springer.

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 Psychosocial Intervention.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2017, May 26). Scientists Have Figured Out Why Some Rocks Can Float For Years. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1994). Medical Education: Curriculum and Financing Strategies Need to Encourage Primary Care Training (HEHS-95-9). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Denny, H. M. (2012). Impact of Occupational Health Interventions in Indonesia [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Koblin, J. (2017, September 12). Oliver Extends HBO Contract. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lowry, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Bork & Copley, 2001; Lowry, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Bork & Copley, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Korobkova et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychosocial Intervention
Abbreviation	Interv. Psicosoc.
ISSN (print)	1132-0559
Scope	Applied Psychology Developmental and Educational Psychology Social Psychology