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]

Wara M. Is the global carbon market working? Nature 2007;445:595–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lynd LR, Woods J. Perspective: A new hope for Africa. Nature 2011;474:S20-1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Herr AB, Ballister ER, Bjorkman PJ. Insights into IgA-mediated immune responses from the crystal structures of human FcalphaRI and its complex with IgA1-Fc. Nature 2003;423:614–20.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bowers JE, Chapman BA, Rong J, Paterson AH. Unravelling angiosperm genome evolution by phylogenetic analysis of chromosomal duplication events. Nature 2003;422:433–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Brown RA. Extreme Tissue Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Paul C, Habib M, editors. Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science: 35th International Workshop, WG 2009, Montpellier, France, June 24-26, 2009. Revised Papers. vol. 5911. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Braun DR, Norton CJ, Harris JWK. Africa and Asia: Comparisons of the Earliest Archaeological Evidence. In: Norton CJ, Braun DR, editors. Asian Paleoanthropology: From Africa to China and Beyond, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011, p. 41–8.

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]

Carpineti A. Rare Wandering Black Hole Spotted Drifting Alone Through A Distant Galaxy. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/rare-wandering-black-hole-spotted-drifting-alone-through-a-distant-galaxy/ (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. School Lunch: Implementing Nutrition Changes Was Challenging and Clarification of Oversight Requirements Is Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sammons JL. Perceived benefits of and barriers to physical exercise in people with severe mental illness. 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]

de la MERCED MJ. Lattice to Seek Trump’s Ear for Chinese-Backed Deal. 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 Cadres
ISSN (print)	0183-2980
Scope	Health Policy General Nursing