How to format your references using the La Revue Sage-Femme citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for La Revue 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	Download the output style file
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]

’t Hooft G. Nothing to fear from mistakes. Nature 2010;467:S7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Goldsby DL, Tullis TE. Flash heating leads to low frictional strength of crustal rocks at earthquake slip rates. Science 2011;334:216–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Changela A, DiGate RJ, Mondragón A. Crystal structure of a complex of a type IA DNA topoisomerase with a single-stranded DNA molecule. Nature 2001;411:1077–81.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kessel R, Schmidt MW, Ulmer P, Pettke T. Trace element signature of subduction-zone fluids, melts and supercritical liquids at 120-180 km depth. Nature 2005;437:724–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Burrows GE, Tyrl RJ. Toxic Plants of North America. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Campbell G, editor. Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Xieqing W, Chaogang X, Zaiting L, Genquan Z. Catalytic Processes for Light Olefin Production. In: Hsu CS, Robinson PR, editors. Practical Advances in Petroleum Processing, New York, NY: Springer; 2006, p. 149–68.

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 La Revue Sage-Femme.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Ancient Mini-Monster Head Mystery Solved – Here’s How We Did It. IFLScience 2015.

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 on State Versus Local Administration of CETA Prime Sponsors in Michigan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

McCain AK. Influence of market setting and time of purchase on counts of aerobic bacteria, Escherichia coli, and coliform and prevalence of Salmonella and Listeria in beef, pork, and chicken in Vietnam. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University, 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]

Shinn IE. TIE-IN. New York Times 1949:MagazineSM2.

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	La Revue Sage-Femme
ISSN (print)	1637-4088
Scope	Maternity and Midwifery