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]

Honour JW. The fight for fair play. Nature 2004;430:143–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Laurence TA, Weiss S. Analytical chemistry. How to detect weak pairs. Science 2003;299:667–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Li CW, Ciston J, Kanan MW. Electroreduction of carbon monoxide to liquid fuel on oxide-derived nanocrystalline copper. Nature 2014;508:504–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Titov DV, Taylor FW, Svedhem H, Ignatiev NI, Markiewicz WJ, Piccioni G, et al. Atmospheric structure and dynamics as the cause of ultraviolet markings in the clouds of Venus. Nature 2008;456:620–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Promislow SD. Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Ginès P, Kamath PS, Arroyo V, editors. Chronic Liver Failure: Mechanisms and Management. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Caravenna F, Dai Pra P. Variabili aleatorie discrete: esempi e applicazioni. In: Dai Pra P, editor. Probabilità: Un’introduzione attraverso modelli e applicazioni, Milano: Springer; 2013, p. 189–230.

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. Scientists Create Holograms that you can Touch. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-create-holograms-you-can-touch/ (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. Port Infrastructure: Financing of Navigation Projects at Small and Medium-Sized Ports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Becker LA. Noncredit to credit transitions: The role of cultural capital and habitus for adult immigrant learners in the community college. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

Cooper BM. The Scramblin’ Kids of Harlem. New York Times 2017:D7.

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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