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]

Schiermeier Q. Bridging the gap in the German economy. Nature 2005;436:1087.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Caruthers M, Wells R. Retrospective. Har Gobind Khorana (1922-2011). Science 2011;334:1511.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Thomson KS, Sutton M, Thomas B. A larval Devonian lungfish. Nature 2003;426:833–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kong A, Thorleifsson G, Gudbjartsson DF, Masson G, Sigurdsson A, Jonasdottir A, et al. Fine-scale recombination rate differences between sexes, populations and individuals. Nature 2010;467:1099–103.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Leibowitz ML, Bova A, Hammond PB. The Endowment Model of Investing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Britt LD, Trunkey DD, Feliciano DV, editors. Acute Care Surgery: Principles and Practice. New York, NY: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Shum SJB, Selvin AM, Sierhuis M, Conklin J, Haley CB, Nuseibeh B. Hypermedia Support for Argumentation-Based Rationale. In: Dutoit AH, McCall R, Mistrík I, Paech B, editors. Rationale Management in Software Engineering, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006, p. 111–32.

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. Three Things We Have To Crack Before We Can Find Any Cures For Alzheimer’s. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/three-things-we-have-crack-we-can-find-any-cures-alzheimer-s/ (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. Space Shuttle: External Tank Procurement Does Not Comply With Competition in Contracting Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Beck RE. Examining the relationship between self-initiated expatriation and cross-cultural adjustment among expatriate spouses within nonprofit organizations: A quantitative causal-comparative study. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 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]

Hollander S. Late Comeback Falls Short, And Liberty Loses to Shock. New York Times 2000:D4.

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
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