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]

Carmichael M. Drug safety: double jeopardy. Nature 2013;498:S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lewcock JW, Reed RR. Neuroscience. ORs rule the roost in the olfactory system. Science 2003;302:2078–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Viswanathan SR, Daley GQ, Gregory RI. Selective blockade of microRNA processing by Lin28. Science 2008;320:97–100.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ishida N, Byrnes T, Nori F, Yamamoto Y. Photoluminescence of a microcavity quantum dot system in the quantum strong-coupling regime. Sci Rep 2013;3:1180.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lehman R, McMillan LG. Options for Volatile Markets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Röhrbein F, Veiga G, Natale C, editors. Gearing up and accelerating cross‐fertilization between academic and industrial robotics research in Europe: Technology transfer experiments from the ECHORD project. vol. 94. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Brokate M, Kersting G. Integrable Functions. In: Kersting G, editor. Measure and Integral, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 41–52.

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 D. This Largely Unknown Condition Puts One Million People In The Hospital Each Year. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sepsis-the-largely-unknown-condition-that-puts-one-million-people-in-the-hospital-each-year/ (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. State Department: Tourist Visa Processing Backlogs Persist at U.S. Consulates. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Freedman R. Assessing the functional recovery and connectivity potential of restored estuaries in southern California using juvenile predator fish movements. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

Qiu L. Women and the Draft. New York Times 2017:A13.

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