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]

Morgan JV. Comment on “Determining chondritic impactor size from the marine osmium isotope record.” Science 2008;321:1158; author reply 1158.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Vogt N, Desplan C. Developmental biology. Flipping the light switch. Science 2010;330:454–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ergon T, Lambin X, Stenseth NC. Life-history traits of voles in a fluctuating population respond to the immediate environment. Nature 2001;411:1043–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Li F, Xu J, Zheng J, Sokolove J, Zhu K, Zhang Y, et al. Association between interleukin-6 gene polymorphisms and rheumatoid arthritis in Chinese Han population: a case-control study and a meta-analysis. Sci Rep 2014;4:5714.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bain BJ, Wild BJ, Stephens AD, Phelan LA. Variant Haemoglobins. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Wang X, editor. Bioinformatics of Human Proteomics. vol. 3. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Niwa M, Katada N, Okumura K. Catalytic Activity and Adsorption Property. In: Katada N, Okumura K, editors. Characterization and Design of Zeolite Catalysts: Solid Acidity, Shape Selectivity and Loading Properties, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 79–101.

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]

Andrew E. New Robotic Fish Moves Like A Real Fish. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-robotic-fish-moves-real-fish/ (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. Aviation Weather: FAA Is Reevaluating Services at Key Centers; Both FAA and the National Weather Service Need to Better Ensure Product Quality. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sikorsky AA. Concentration enhancement and device fabrication for the improved performance of gradient elution moving boundary electrophoresis. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

Kwai I. Citizenship Costs Senator In Australia Her Position. New York Times 2017:A6.

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