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]

Bilham R. A flying start, then a slow slip. Science 2005;308:1126–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kriaucionis S, Heintz N. The nuclear DNA base 5-hydroxymethylcytosine is present in Purkinje neurons and the brain. Science 2009;324:929–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dong Z, Hoven CW, Rosenfield A. Lessons from the past. Nature 2005;433:573–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Pal C, Maciá MD, Oliver A, Schachar I, Buckling A. Coevolution with viruses drives the evolution of bacterial mutation rates. Nature 2007;450:1079–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kang S. Micro/Nano Replication. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Abraham A, Kovalev S, Tarassov V, Snášel V, editors. Proceedings of the First International Scientific Conference “Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry” (IITI’16): Volume 1. vol. 450. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Karasawa K, Kitasaka T, Oda M, Nimura Y, Hayashi Y, Fujiwara M, et al. Structure Specific Atlas Generation and Its Application to Pancreas Segmentation from Contrasted Abdominal CT Volumes. In: Menze B, Langs G, Montillo A, Kelm M, Müller H, Zhang S, et al., editors. Medical Computer Vision: Algorithms for Big Data: International Workshop, MCV 2015, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2015, Munich, Germany, October 9, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 47–56.

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]

Carpineti A. Electromagnetism Has The Same Strength Across The Universe. 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. Report on Evaluation of Lapsize Computers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Garraway OL. A study of the relationship between corporate leaders’ beliefs and the firm’s strategic decisions. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2008.

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]

Greenhouse L. Justices, Voting 5-4, Limit the Use of Race In Integration Plans. New York Times 2007:A1.

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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