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]

Ekeland I I. Mathematics. Curves and numbers. Nature 2000;405:748–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Alekseyenko AA, Kuroda MI. Molecular biology. Filling gaps in genome organization. Science 2004;303:1148–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tsuchida T, Koga R, Fukatsu T. Host plant specialization governed by facultative symbiont. Science 2004;303:1989.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Karnik SK, Chen H, McLean GW, Heit JJ, Gu X, Zhang AY, et al. Menin controls growth of pancreatic beta-cells in pregnant mice and promotes gestational diabetes mellitus. Science 2007;318:806–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Renaud B, Kim K-H, Cho M. Dynamics of Housing in East Asia. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Chai J. Deformation Analysis in Soft Ground Improvement. vol. 18. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sesham S, Sabat SL. Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Networks. In: Mishra AK, Johnson DL, editors. White Space Communication: Advances, Developments and Engineering Challenges, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 117–51.

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]

Davis J. Al Gore Tells IFLScience, When It Comes To Climate Change, “We Will Win.” 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. Fiscal Year 2007 Performance Plans. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Whittle CM. The genomic distribution and function of NFI and histone variant H2A.Z during Caenorhabditis elegans development. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, 2009.

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]

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