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]

Bardeen C. Electron transfer. Sometimes you can go home again. Science 2001;293:444–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wandzioch E, Zaret KS. Dynamic signaling network for the specification of embryonic pancreas and liver progenitors. Science 2009;324:1707–10.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Keller KE, Tan IS, Lee Y-S. SAICAR stimulates pyruvate kinase isoform M2 and promotes cancer cell survival in glucose-limited conditions. Science 2012;338:1069–72.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yamaguchi A, Kobayashi S, Ishimoto H, Kojima H. Minority spin condensate in the spin-polarized superfluid 3He A1 phase. Nature 2006;444:909–12.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Belfiore LA. Physical Properties of Macromolecules. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Fox PF. Dairy Chemistry and Biochemistry. 2nd ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Goodman GS. School Sucks! Deconstructing Taylorist Obsessions. In: Corcoran T, editor. Psychology in Education: Critical Theory~Practice, Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2014, p. 71–81.

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. What Does Spider-Man Eat For Breakfast? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-does-spider-man-eat-breakfast/ (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. Federal Research: Two Political Science Grants Awarded by the National Science Foundation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Heredia R. Leadership Development in a Multigenerational Workplace: An Exploratory Study. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine 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]

Brantley B. Exploring the Silence After the War. New York Times 2016:C2.

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