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]

Burness GP. Ecology. Elephants, mice, and red herrings. Science 2002;296:1245–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rosenthal Y, Broccoli AJ. Atmospheric science. In search of paleo-ENSO. Science 2004;304:219–21.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Deng L, Shangguan Z-P, Sweeney S. “Grain for Green” driven land use change and carbon sequestration on the Loess Plateau, China. Sci Rep 2014;4:7039.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wernig M, Meissner A, Foreman R, Brambrink T, Ku M, Hochedlinger K, et al. In vitro reprogramming of fibroblasts into a pluripotent ES-cell-like state. Nature 2007;448:318–24.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Glisic SG. Advanced Wireless Communications & Internet. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Dastani M, El Fallah Seghrouchni A, Ricci A, Winikoff M, editors. Programming Multi-Agent Systems: 5th International Workshop, ProMAS 2007 Honolulu, HI, USA, May 15, 2007 Revised and Invited Papers. vol. 4908. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zhang L, Neuhäußer MR. Model Checking Interactive Markov Chains. In: Esparza J, Majumdar R, editors. Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 16th International Conference, TACAS 2010, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2010, Paphos, Cyprus, March 20-28, 2010. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 53–68.

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 Cadres.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Gamma-Ray Burst 130427A One Of The Brightest Ever Recorded. IFLScience 2013. https://www.iflscience.com/space/gamma-ray-burst-130427a-one-brightest-ever-recorded/ (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. Pell Grant Validation Imposes Some Costs and Does Not Greatly Reduce Award Errors: New Strategies Are Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Dashevsky-Kerdman I. The meeting of one hundred ways. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2009.

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]

Hiltner S, Lehman S. Finding an Expansive View of a Forgotten People in Niger. New York Times 2017:A2.

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

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