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]

Stone M. OPTICS. Topology, spin, and light. Science 2015;348:1432–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Anderson DM, Archer D. Glacial--interglacial stability of ocean pH inferred from foraminifer dissolution rates. Nature 2002;416:70–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Paul JW, West JP, Gitler AD. Cell Biology. Clogging information flow in ALS. Science 2014;345:1118–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Oberdoerffer S, Moita LF, Neems D, Freitas RP, Hacohen N, Rao A. Regulation of CD45 alternative splicing by heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein, hnRNPLL. Science 2008;321:686–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Huber PJ. Data Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Janoušek V. Geochemical Modelling of Igneous Processes – Principles And Recipes in R Language: Bringing the Power of R to a Geochemical Community. 1st ed. 2016. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Brox P, Baturone I, Sánchez-Solano S. Fuzzy Motion-Adaptive De-Interlacing with Smart Temporal Interpolation. In: Baturone I, Sánchez-Solano S, editors. Fuzzy Logic-Based Algorithms for Video De-Interlacing, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 143–68.

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]

Taub B. Taurine May Help Treat Psychosis – But That Doesn’t Mean You Should Binge On Red Bull. 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 Manpower Training Program--GAO Conclusions and Observations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Liyakath RA. Reconfigurable Antenna and RF Circuits Using Multi-Layer Stretchable Conductors. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 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]

Gorman J. Analyzing Ah-Choos: All Dogs in Favor Of the Motion, Sneeze. New York Times 2017:D2.

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

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