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]

Elshakry M. Global Darwin: Eastern enchantment. Nature 2009;461:1200–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Schindler CS, Jacobsen EN. Chemistry. A new twist on cooperative catalysis. Science 2013;340:1052–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mellman I, Coukos G, Dranoff G. Cancer immunotherapy comes of age. Nature 2011;480:480–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Siddiqa A, Sims-Mourtada JC, Guzman-Rojas L, Rangel R, Guret C, Madrid-Marina V, et al. Regulation of CD40 and CD40 ligand by the AT-hook transcription factor AKNA. Nature 2001;410:383–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Baker WL, Marn MV, Zawada CC. The Price Advantage. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Chen H, Wang F-Y, Yang CC, Zeng D, Chau M, Chang K, editors. Intelligence and Security Informatics: International Workshop, WISI 2006, Singapore, April 9, 2006. Proceedings. vol. 3917. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Heinzel A, König U. Nanotechnology for Fuel Cells. In: Leite ER, editor. Nanostructured Materials for Electrochemical Energy Production and Storage, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009, p. 151–83.

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. Creative Ways to Battle Superbugs. IFLScience 2013. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/creative-ways-battle-superbugs/ (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. Energy Research: Recovery of Federal Investment in Technology Development Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Smith MP. De la página a la pantalla: Memoria de la Guerra Civil española en la narrativa contemporánea. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2009.

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]

Hodara S. Joyful Puzzles of Home and Transition. New York Times 2015:WE9.

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