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]

Fisher CB. Public health. Clinical trials results databases: unanswered questions. Science 2006;311:180–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Richardson C, Jasin M. Frequent chromosomal translocations induced by DNA double-strand breaks. Nature 2000;405:697–700.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Juanes-Marcos JC, Althorpe SC, Wrede E. Theoretical study of geometric phase effects in the hydrogen-exchange reaction. Science 2005;309:1227–30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Vo M-N, Terrey M, Lee JW, Roy B, Moresco JJ, Sun L, et al. Publisher Correction: ANKRD16 prevents neuron loss caused by an editing-defective tRNA synthetase. Nature 2018;560:E35.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Diels J-C, Arissian L. Lasers. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Gan L. Data you need to know about China: Research Report of China Household Finance Survey•2012. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Horn S, Korsunova A. Trends in EU Energy Policy 1995–2007. In: Järvelä M, Juhola S, editors. Energy, Policy, and the Environment: Modeling Sustainable Development for the North, New York, NY: Springer; 2011, p. 45–63.

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. Solar Plane to Attempt Round-the-World Flight. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/solar-plane-attempt-round-world-flight/ (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. A Bibliography of Documents Issued by the GAO on Matters Related to: Health. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Chung J. Quasi-one-dimensional modeling of an adiabatic-compression preheated Ludwieg tube. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2015.

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]

Greenhouse L. One Man, Two Courts. New York Times 2010:WK11.

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

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