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]

Henzinger M. Search technologies for the internet. Science 2007;317:468–71.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Garcia V, Bibes M. Electronics: inside story of ferroelectric memories. Nature 2012;483:279–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ahn KH, Lookman T, Bishop AR. Strain-induced metal-insulator phase coexistence in perovskite manganites. Nature 2004;428:401–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Cebrian M, Torres MR, Huerta R, Fowler JH. Violent extremist group ecologies under stress. Sci Rep 2013;3:1544.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Klöpffer W. Verhalten und Abbau von Umweltchemikalien. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Caminiti R, Gontrani L, editors. The Structure of Ionic Liquids. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

van de Heetkamp A, Tusveld R. (Rules of) Origin. In: Tusveld R, editor. Origin Management: Rules of Origin in Free Trade Agreements, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 71–108.

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]

Luntz S. Tick Bite Makes You Allergic To Meat. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tick-bite-makes-you-allergic-meat/ (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. NASA Designation of Their Ames Facility to Be Lead Center for Helicopter Research and Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Tengco MA. Quality Home Care: Providing Personal Care and Homemaking Services for Seniors in the Community. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Kelly WP. Mr. Miró, Mr. Basie. New York Times 2002:716.

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

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