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]

Desplan C. Time to pick the fly’s brain. Nature 2007;450:173.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Scully R, Livingston DM. In search of the tumour-suppressor functions of BRCA1 and BRCA2. Nature 2000;408:429–32.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Savukov IM, Lee S-K, Romalis MV. Optical detection of liquid-state NMR. Nature 2006;442:1021–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yu H, Lu C, Tieu AK, Godbole A, Su L, Sun Y, et al. Fabrication of ultra-thin nanostructured bimetallic foils by Accumulative Roll Bonding and Asymmetric Rolling. Sci Rep 2013;3:2373.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Turner JR, Durham TA. Integrated Cardiac Safety: Assessment Methodologies for Noncardiac Drugs in Discovery, Development, and Postmarketing Surveillance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Schwerzmann M, Thomet C, Moons P, editors. Congenital Heart Disease and Adolescence. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kunihiro N. On Optimal Bounds of Small Inverse Problems and Approximate GCD Problems with Higher Degree. In: Gollmann D, Freiling FC, editors. Information Security: 15th International Conference, ISC 2012, Passau, Germany, September 19-21, 2012. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 55–69.

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]

Fang J. Scientists Measure Rare Black Hole 400x The Size Of Our Sun. IFLScience 2014.

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. Disbursing Transactions, Naval Ship Research and Development Laboratory. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Restrepo E. Eventalizing blackness in Colombia. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, 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]

Vecsey G. At All-Star Game, Politics and Passion Are Also in Play. New York Times 2011:D2.

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

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