How to format your references using the Soins citation style

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

Bobrow M. Funders must encourage scientists to share. Nature 2015;522:129.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Seo M, Hillmyer MA. Reticulated nanoporous polymers by controlled polymerization-induced microphase separation. Science 2012;336:1422–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kim H-J, Lee J-H, Cho J-H. Antiferromagnetic Slater insulator phase of Na₂IrO₃. Sci Rep 2014;4:5253.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kumar R, Kumari B, Srivastava A, Kumar M. NRfamPred: a proteome-scale two level method for prediction of nuclear receptor proteins and their sub-families. Sci Rep 2014;4:6810.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Simonović SP. Systems Approach to Management of Disasters. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Kröger F. Temporal Logic and State Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hines M. Gonadal Hormone Influences on Human Neurobehavioral Development: Outcomes and Mechanisms. In: Pfaff DW, Christen Y, editors. Multiple Origins of Sex Differences in Brain: Neuroendocrine Functions and their Pathologies, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 59–69.

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.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. The Science of the Obesity Epidemic. IFLScience 2013. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/science-obesity-epidemic/ (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. Tax Policy: Uncertain Impact of Repealing the Deferral for Reinvested Shipping Income. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wilson EM. Lessons Learned from the Gender Wage Gap in the Federal Workforce: Structural Changes and Temporal Flexibility are Only the First Step to Equality. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2017.

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]

Hanc J. Solitude on the Hudson River. New York Times 2017:F38.

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
Abbreviation	Soins
ISSN (print)	0038-0814
Scope	General Medicine General Nursing