How to format your references using the Imagerie de la Femme citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Imagerie de la Femme. 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 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

[1]

Bohannon J. Why do scientists dance? Science 2010;330:752.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gaudet J, Mango SE. Regulation of organogenesis by the Caenorhabditis elegans FoxA protein PHA-4. Science 2002;295:821–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Shekhawat G, Tark S-H, Dravid VP. MOSFET-Embedded microcantilevers for measuring deflection in biomolecular sensors. Science 2006;311:1592–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Matsumoto A, Comatas KE, Liu L, Stamler JS. Screening for nitric oxide-dependent protein-protein interactions. Science 2003;301:657–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Voigtman E. Limits of Detection in Chemical Analysis. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Jankowski JAZ, editor. Inflammation and Gastrointestinal Cancers. vol. 185. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Johnson MP, Hollander JB, Whiteman ED. Data and Analytics for Neighborhood Development: Smart Shrinkage Decision Modeling in Baltimore, Maryland. In: Geertman S, Ferreira J Jr, Goodspeed R, Stillwell J, editors. Planning Support Systems and Smart Cities, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 61–76.

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 Imagerie de la Femme.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. 9 Awesome Things You Didn’t Know About Bill Nye The Science Guy. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/10-things-you-need-know-about-bill-nye/ (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. Highway Finance: States’ Expanding Use of Tolling Illustrates Diverse Challenges and Strategies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Albers C. One Academic Year Study of Experiences of One Cohort of Graduates from a Midwestern University’s Teacher Education Program. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University, 2015.

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]

Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton, in South Carolina, Shows He Is a Threat in the South. New York Times 1992:130.

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	Imagerie de la Femme
ISSN (print)	1776-9817
Scope	Surgery