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]

Cook-Deegan R. Genome-sequencing anniversary. Gene patents: the shadow of uncertainty. Science 2011;331:873–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wang ZL, Song J. Piezoelectric nanogenerators based on zinc oxide nanowire arrays. Science 2006;312:242–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sambarey A, Prashanthi K, Chandra N. Mining large-scale response networks reveals “topmost activities” in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Sci Rep 2013;3:2302.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Chen J, Li X, Cheng C, Wang Y, Qin M, Zhu H, et al. Characterization of epistatic interaction of QTLs LH8 and EH3 controlling heading date in rice. Sci Rep 2014;4:4263.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Silvapulle MJ, Sen PK. Constrained Statistical Inference: Inequality, Order, and Shape Restrictions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2001.

An edited book

[1]

Hall TJ, Gaponenko SV, Paredes SA, editors. Extreme Photonics & Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Nin N, Izquierdo-García JL, Lorente JA. The Metabolomic Approach to the Diagnosis of Critical Illness. In: Vincent J-L, editor. Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2012, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 43–52.

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]

Davis J. Tens Of Thousands Of Fish Die In Yellowstone River, Prompting Authorities To Close It Down. 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. Federal Research: NIH and EPA Need to Improve Conflict of Interest Reviews for Research Arrangements with Private Sector Entities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Works RF. Econometric modeling of exchange rate determinants by market classification: An empirical analysis of Japan and South Korea using the sticky-price monetary theory. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2016.

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]

Vecsey G. Thanks for the Tasteless Sermon. New York Times 2010:B13.

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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