How to format your references using the Soins Psychiatrie citation style

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

Doebley J. Plant science. Unfallen grains: how ancient farmers turned weeds into crops. Science 2006;312:1318–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Allen TM, Cullis PR. Drug delivery systems: entering the mainstream. Science 2004;303:1818–22.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pál C, Papp B, Hurst LD. Genomic function: Rate of evolution and gene dispensability. Nature 2003;421:496–7; discussion 497-8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Micheli M, Farnocchia D, Meech KJ, Buie MW, Hainaut OR, Prialnik D, et al. Non-gravitational acceleration in the trajectory of 1I/2017 U1 ('Oumuamua). Nature 2018;559:223–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Charalambides CA. Combinatorial Methods in Discrete Distributions: Charalambides/Combinatorial. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Moritz KM. Factors Influencing Mammalian Kidney Development: Implications for Health in Adult Life. vol. 196. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hasler C-C. Neuromuscular Spine Deformities. In: Yazici M, editor. Non-Idiopathic Spine Deformities in Young Children, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 73–5.

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 Psychiatrie.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Did ‘Rising Star’ Shine Too Bright? IFLScience 2015.

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. Joint Strike Fighter: Progress Made and Challenges Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Corral DC. A grant proposal: Parent and adolescent support group. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

Rothenberg B. Australian Persists in Chase for Elusive Title. New York Times 2017:SP2.

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 Psychiatrie
Abbreviation	Soins Psychiatr.
ISSN (print)	0241-6972
Scope	General Medicine Phychiatric Mental Health