How to format your references using the La Revue Sage-Femme citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for La Revue Sage-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	Download the output style file
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]

Parisi G. Brownian motion. Nature 2005;433:221.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Daubin V, Moran NA. Comment on “The origins of genome complexity.” Science 2004;306:978; author reply 978.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Staal M, Meysman FJR, Stal LJ. Temperature excludes N2-fixing heterocystous cyanobacteria in the tropical oceans. Nature 2003;425:504–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Li XP, Björkman O, Shih C, Grossman AR, Rosenquist M, Jansson S, et al. A pigment-binding protein essential for regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting. Nature 2000;403:391–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Stephanie Hammer. Architects of Electronic Trading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Werf J van der, Graser H-U, Frankham R, Gondro C, editors. Adaptation and Fitness in Animal Populations: Evolutionary and Breeding Perspectives on Genetic Resource Management. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lindström D. Homicide in Scandinavia: Long-Term Trends and Their Interpretations. In: Body-Gendrot S, Spierenburg P, editors. Violence in Europe, New York, NY: Springer; 2008, p. 43–64.

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 La Revue Sage-Femme.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Existence of Exotic Hadron Confirmed. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/existence-exotic-hadron-confirmed/ (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. National Airspace System: Progress and Ongoing Challenges for the Air Traffic Organization. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mills LM. A mentoring program for foster youth transitioning into adulthood: A grant proposal. 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]

Brantley B. You Only Turn 40 One Time. New York Times 2017:C1.

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	La Revue Sage-Femme
ISSN (print)	1637-4088
Scope	Maternity and Midwifery