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]

Scholz CH. A fault in the “weak San Andreas” theory. Nature 2000;406:234.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Waterhouse PM, Hellens RP. Plant biology: Coding in non-coding RNAs. Nature 2015;520:41–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Goebel T, Waters MR, Dikova M. The archaeology of Ushki Lake, Kamchatka, and the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas. Science 2003;301:501–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yang J, Li J, Du Z, Gong Q, Teng J, Hong M. Laser hybrid micro/nano-structuring of Si surfaces in air and its applications for SERS detection. Sci Rep 2014;4:6657.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Love J, Bryant JA. Biofuels and Bioenergy. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Ito T, Zhang M, Robu V, Fatima S, Matsuo T, Yamaki H, editors. Innovations in Agent-Based Complex Automated Negotiations. vol. 319. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gozdawa-Gołębiowski R. Basic Dichotomies in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: A Case of Formulaic Language. In: Gabryś-Barker D, Piechurska-Kuciel E, Zybert J, editors. Investigations in Teaching and Learning Languages: Studies in Honour of Hanna Komorowska, Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing; 2013, p. 35–50.

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]

O`Callaghan J. Bird Flu Confirmed On UK Farm. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bird-flu-confirmed-lancashire-farm-prompts-mass-cull-poultry/ (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. High Speed Ground Transportation: Financing Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kao CH. Community mental health care for Chinese Americans: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Feeney K. A Short Menu of Longtime Favorites. New York Times 2007:NJ6.

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