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]

Schiermeier Q. Review panel assails Brussels research bureaucracy. Nature 2000;406:336.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Cho US, Xu W. Crystal structure of a protein phosphatase 2A heterotrimeric holoenzyme. Nature 2007;445:53–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kolodner RD, Cleveland DW, Putnam CD. Cancer. Aneuploidy drives a mutator phenotype in cancer. Science 2011;333:942–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yang J, Smith MR, Lan T, Hou J-B, Zhang X-G. Articulated Wiwaxia from the Cambrian Stage 3 Xiaoshiba lagerstätte. Sci Rep 2014;4:4643.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hogg RM, Fulk RD. A Grammar of Old English. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Jajodia S, Liu P, Swarup V, Wang C, editors. Cyber Situational Awareness: Issues and Research. vol. 46. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Revathi A, Venkataramani Y. Text Independent Speaker and Emotion Independent Speech Recognition in Emotional Environment. In: Mandal JK, Satapathy SC, Kumar Sanyal M, Sarkar PP, Mukhopadhyay A, editors. Information Systems Design and Intelligent Applications: Proceedings of Second International Conference INDIA 2015, Volume 1, New Delhi: Springer India; 2015, p. 43–52.

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]

Luntz S. Bacteria Can Make Zero-Viscosity Superfluids. 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. School Bullying: Extent of Legal Protections for Vulnerable Groups Needs to Be More Fully Assessed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Duncan KF. Middle school teachers’ self-perceptions of response to intervention. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2016.

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]

Arvedlund EE, SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY; C.J. Chivers contributed reporting for this article. After a Spate of Bombings, Moscow’s Full of Foreboding. New York Times 2004:A6.

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