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]

Holmes EC. Virology. 1918 and all that. Science 2004;303:1787–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pascual A, Préat T. Localization of long-term memory within the Drosophila mushroom body. Science 2001;294:1115–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sweeney KE, Roering JJ, Ellis C. GEOMORPHOLOGY. Experimental evidence for hillslope control of landscape scale. Science 2015;349:51–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Jin C, Wang G, Le A-T, Lin CD. Route to optimal generation of soft X-ray high harmonics with synthesized two-color laser pulses. Sci Rep 2014;4:7067.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bennett MR, Hacker PMS. History of Cognitive Neuroscience. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Nührenbörger M. Design Science and Its Importance in the German Mathematics Educational Discussion. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Juth N, Munthe C. Case Studies. In: Munthe C, editor. The Ethics of Screening in Health Care and Medicine: Serving Society or Serving the Patient?, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012, p. 99–126.

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]

Andrew E. We’re Hiring In Our London Office. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/were-hiring/ (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. Aviation Safety: Status of Recommendations to Improve FAA’s Certification and Approval Processes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Shabalin AA. Detection of low rank signals in noise and fast correlation mining with applications to large biological data. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, 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]

Hodara S. Unseen Ingredients: Cash, and Lots of Time. New York Times 2016:WE9.

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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