How to format your references using the Imagerie de la Femme citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Imagerie de la 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Coontz R. Mysteries of astronomy. Science 2012;336:1090.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Russo CJ, Passmore LA. Electron microscopy: Ultrastable gold substrates for electron cryomicroscopy. Science 2014;346:1377–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Plaks V, Koopman CD, Werb Z. Cancer. Circulating tumor cells. Science 2013;341:1186–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yamamoto M, Saijoh Y, Perea-Gomez A, Shawlot W, Behringer RR, Ang S-L, et al. Nodal antagonists regulate formation of the anteroposterior axis of the mouse embryo. Nature 2004;428:387–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Zhang W, Shmulevich I, Astola J. Microarray Quality Control. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Connor J. Structural Motion Engineering. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bendaoud M, Sarih M. Additive Maps Preserving the Inner Local Spectral Radius. In: Cepedello Boiso M, Hedenmalm H, Kaashoek MA, Montes Rodríguez A, Treil S, editors. Concrete Operators, Spectral Theory, Operators in Harmonic Analysis and Approximation: 22nd International Workshop in Operator Theory and its Applications, Sevilla, July 2011, Basel: Springer; 2014, p. 95–102.

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 Imagerie de la Femme.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Massive New Study Suggests The Pill Has Prevented 200,000 Cases of Womb Cancer. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/massive-new-study-suggests-pill-prevented-200000-cases-womb-cancer/ (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. The President’s Decision to Order a Chinese Company’s Divestiture of a Recently Acquired U.S. Aircraft Parts Manufacturer. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Coleman ED. The Nature of Leadership: A Case Study of Distributed Leadership Amidst A Participative Change Effort. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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]

de la MERCED MJ, Kang C. TV Station Owners Rush to Seize on Looser Rules. New York Times 2017:B1.

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	Imagerie de la Femme
ISSN (print)	1776-9817
Scope	Surgery