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]

Kiessling W. Paleoecology. Life’s complexity cast in stone. Science 2006;314:1254–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pruitt JN, Goodnight CJ. Site-specific group selection drives locally adapted group compositions. Nature 2014;514:359–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Xu X, Zhou Z, Wang X. The smallest known non-avian theropod dinosaur. Nature 2000;408:705–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kuhlemann J, Rohling EJ, Krumrei I, Kubik P, Ivy-Ochs S, Kucera M. Regional synthesis of Mediterranean atmospheric circulation during the Last Glacial Maximum. Science 2008;321:1338–40.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bleistein S. Rapid Organizational Change. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Grasswick HE, editor. Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Vashchenko V, Scholz M. IC and System ESD Co-design. In: Scholz M, editor. System Level ESD Protection, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 247–309.

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]

Taub B. Do Animals Use Drugs In The Wild? IFLScience 2016.

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. Information Technology: FBI Needs an Enterprise Architecture to Guide Its Modernization Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sweeney MT. Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare treatment outcomes: Wediko Children’s Services short-term residential treatment program. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 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]

Kishkovsky S. It’s Like “Sex and the City,” Only the City Is Moscow. New York Times 2005:E3.

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