How to format your references using the Revue du podologue citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revue du podologue. 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]

Gothelf KV. Materials science. LEGO-like DNA structures. Science 2012;338:1159–60.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hochedlinger K, Jaenisch R. Nuclear reprogramming and pluripotency. Nature 2006;441:1061–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Alfe D, Gillan MJ, Price GD. Constraints on the composition of the Earth’s core from ab initio calculations. Nature 2000;405:172–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Guo P, Xiao F, Liu Q, Liu H, Guo Y, Gong JR, et al. One-pot microbial method to synthesize dual-doped graphene and its use as high-performance electrocatalyst. Sci Rep 2013;3:3499.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Weverka P. Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2010 All-in-One for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Salvi RJ, Popper AN, Fay RR, editors. Hair Cell Regeneration, Repair, and Protection. vol. 33. New York, NY: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Carrera Á, Iglesias CA. Improving Diagnosis Agents with Hybrid Hypotheses Confirmation Reasoning Techniques. In: Cossentino M, Kaisers M, Tuyls K, Weiss G, editors. Multi-Agent Systems: 9th European Workshop, EUMAS 2011, Maastricht, The Netherlands, November 14-15, 2011. Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 48–62.

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 Revue du podologue.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. My Brain Made Me Do It: Will Neuroscience Change The Way We Punish Criminals? IFLScience 2016.

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. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Medium Range System Components Do Not Fit. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pecue CJ. Utilizing Audiovisual Stimuli in the Classroom to Facilitate Pronunciation of French Stop Consonants. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2015.

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]

Marx L. After the Guests Have Left. New York Times 2014:ST13.

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	Revue du podologue
ISSN (print)	1766-7313
Scope	Podiatry