How to format your references using the Revue Francophone de Cicatrisation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revue Francophone de Cicatrisation. 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]

Sommeria J. Unweaving the whirls. Nature 2001;413:575.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Grande C, Patel NH. Nodal signalling is involved in left-right asymmetry in snails. Nature 2009;457:1007–11.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Vielle-Calzada JP, Baskar R, Grossniklaus U. Delayed activation of the paternal genome during seed development. Nature 2000;404:91–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Losos JB, Schoener TW, Langerhans RB, Spiller DA. Rapid temporal reversal in predator-driven natural selection. Science 2006;314:1111.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cobb AH, Reade JPH. Herbicides and Plant Physiology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Bičák J, Ledvinka T, editors. General Relativity, Cosmology and Astrophysics: Perspectives 100 years after Einstein’s stay in Prague. vol. 177. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lakshmikantham V, Leela S, Martynyuk AA. Stability In The Models of Real World Phenomena. In: Leela S, Martynyuk AA, editors. Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Systems, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 253–309.

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 Francophone de Cicatrisation.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Desert Rain Frog: Dangerous Beast or Adorable Squeaky Toy? IFLScience 2014.

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of the Telecommunications Industry. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kingsley SJ. Preschool teachers’ perceptions of factors influencing their referral decisions for young children with severe behavior problems. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, 2012.

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]

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Asia: Putin Indicates Kurile Deal Is Not Likely Soon. New York Times 2004: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	Revue Francophone de Cicatrisation
ISSN (print)	2468-9114
Scope