How to format your references using the Vocation sage-femme citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Vocation sage-femme. 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]

Schönenberger C. Physics. Two indistinguishable electrons interfere in an electronic device. Science 2013;339:1041–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Buss JA, Agapie T. Four-electron deoxygenative reductive coupling of carbon monoxide at a single metal site. Nature 2016;529:72–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Krasnoshchekov DN, Kaazik PB, Ovtchinnikov VM. Seismological evidence for mosaic structure of the surface of the Earth’s inner core. Nature 2005;435:483–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Berthe M, Stiufiuc R, Grandidier B, Deresmes D, Delerue C, Stiévenard D. Probing the carrier capture rate of a single quantum level. Science 2008;319:436–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Weisberg HI. Willful Ignorance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Ascoli GA, Hawrylycz M, Ali H, Khazanchi D, Shi Y, editors. Brain Informatics and Health: International Conference, BIH 2016, Omaha, NE, USA, October 13-16, 2016 Proceedings. vol. 9919. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gollasch S, David M, Keast K, Parker N, Wiley C. Policy and Legal Framework and the Current Status of Ballast Water Management Requirements. In: David M, Gollasch S, editors. Global Maritime Transport and Ballast Water Management: Issues and Solutions, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015, p. 59–88.

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 Vocation sage-femme.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Rings Discovered Around an Asteroid for the First Time. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/rings-discovered-around-asteroid-first-time/ (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. Combined Fund Update. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Moe R. The evolution and impact of the massive open online course. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2014.

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]

Poniewozik J. Time Nearly Stands Still. New York Times 2017:C1.

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	Vocation sage-femme
ISSN (print)	1634-0760
Scope