How to format your references using the Soins Cadres citation style

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

Clarke J. Physics. Flux qubit completes the hat trick. Science 2003;299:1850–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gatfield D, Izaurralde E. Nonsense-mediated messenger RNA decay is initiated by endonucleolytic cleavage in Drosophila. Nature 2004;429:575–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Anuar TS, Salleh FM, Moktar N. Soil-transmitted helminth infections and associated risk factors in three Orang Asli tribes in Peninsular Malaysia. Sci Rep 2014;4:4101.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Aziz EF, Ottosson N, Faubel M, Hertel IV, Winter B. Interaction between liquid water and hydroxide revealed by core-hole de-excitation. Nature 2008;455:89–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bromfield R. Doing Therapy with Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Papa M, Shenoi S, editors. Critical Infrastructure Protection II. vol. 290. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wu M-W, Huang Y, Chen I-Y, Lu S-K, Kuo S-Y. A Scalable Port Forwarding for P2P-Based Wi-Fi Applications. In: Cheng X, Li W, Znati T, editors. Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications: First International Conference, WASA 2006, Xi’an, China, August 15-17, 2006. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006, p. 26–37.

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 Cadres.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. The Same Genes Influence Exam Results Across A Range Of School Subjects. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/same-genes-influence-exam-results-across-range-school-subjects/ (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. Statement of the Contingent Liability of the U.S. Government. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Stephens AH. William Harold Fletcher (b. 1923): His life and career in music education at Oklahoma Christian University, 1950–2012. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 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]

Crow K. Where 146 Died in a Fire, And a Union Was Born. New York Times 2002:146.

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 Cadres
ISSN (print)	0183-2980
Scope	Health Policy General Nursing