How to format your references using the Soins Aides-soignantes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Soins Aides-soignantes. 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]

Smaglik P. Job movements. Nature 2005;433:901.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gunlycke D, Sheehan PE. Materials science. Local peeling of graphene. Science 2011;331:1146–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Huxter J, Burgess N, O’Keefe J. Independent rate and temporal coding in hippocampal pyramidal cells. Nature 2003;425:828–32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hermosura MC, Takeuchi H, Fleig A, Riley AM, Potter BV, Hirata M, et al. InsP4 facilitates store-operated calcium influx by inhibition of InsP3 5-phosphatase. Nature 2000;408:735–40.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Chow S-C, Liu J-P. Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials: Concepts and Methodologies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Topolov VY. Electromechanical Properties in Composite Based on Ferroelectrics. London: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Tzu C, Yu-lan F. The Evidence of Virtue Complete. In: Fung Y-L, editor. Chuang-Tzu: A New Selected Translation with an Exposition of the Philosophy of Kuo Hsiang, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016, p. 35–9.

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 Soins Aides-soignantes.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. We Are Now In “Uncharted Territory” As Climate Change Continues Into 2017. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/we-are-now-in-uncharted-territory-as-climate-change-continues-into-2017/ (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. USDA: Information on Classical Plant and Animal Breeding Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Oppenheim JN. Examination of Oncology Summer Camp Attendance, Psychosocial Adjustment, and Perceived Social Support Among Pediatric Cancer Patients and Siblings. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2017.

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]

Koblin J, Grynbaum MM. Kelly May Get Morning Slot, Shaking Up ‘Today.’ New York Times 2017:B4.

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	Soins Aides-soignantes
ISSN (print)	1770-9857
Scope	General Nursing