How to format your references using the Douleurs Evaluation - Diagnostic - Traitement citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Douleurs Evaluation - Diagnostic - Traitement. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
[1]
Mazzarello P. What dreams may come? Nature 2000;408:523.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
Freeman BC, Yamamoto KR. Disassembly of transcriptional regulatory complexes by molecular chaperones. Science 2002;296:2232–5.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
Reynolds AM, Leprêtre L, Bohan DA. Movement patterns of Tenebrio beetles demonstrate empirically that correlated-random-walks have similitude with a Lévy walk. Sci Rep 2013;3:3158.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
[1]
Hidalgo Carcedo C, Bonazzi M, Spanò S, Turacchio G, Colanzi A, Luini A, et al. Mitotic Golgi partitioning is driven by the membrane-fissioning protein CtBP3/BARS. Science 2004;305:93–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
Vinod HD, Reagle DP. Preparing for the Worst: Incorporating Downside Risk in Stock Market Investments. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.
An edited book
[1]
Horton K. Ethical Questions and International NGOs: An exchange between Philosophers and NGOs. vol. 23. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
Schulz H, Görling A. Toward a Comprehensive Treatment of Temperature in Electronic Structure Calculations: Non-zero-Temperature Hartree-Fock and Exact-Exchange Kohn-Sham Methods. In: Graziani F, Desjarlais MP, Redmer R, Trickey SB, editors. Frontiers and Challenges in Warm Dense Matter, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 87–121.

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 Douleurs Evaluation - Diagnostic - Traitement.

Blog post
[1]
Andrew E. Blame It On Mum And Dad: How Genes Influence What We Eat. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/blame-it-mum-and-dad-how-genes-influence-what-we-eat/ (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
[1]
Government Accountability Office. Digests of Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. II, No. 4. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
Chiang I-C. A historical technique from a modern perspective: The transcription scordatura in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E-flat major, K. 364. Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati, 2010.

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
[1]
Vecsey G. In Season of Defense, Recalling Swoboda’s Catch. New York Times 2009:B19.

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 titleDouleurs Evaluation - Diagnostic - Traitement
ISSN (print)1624-5687
ScopeAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Clinical Neurology

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