How to format your references using the Revue du podologue citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revue du podologue. 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]

Gershon D. Crossing the divide between theory and practice. Nature 2000;404:316.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Iwao C, Shidoji Y. Induction of nuclear translocation of mutant cytoplasmic p53 by geranylgeranoic acid in a human hepatoma cell line. Sci Rep 2014;4:4419.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kohli RM, Walsh CT, Burkart MD. Biomimetic synthesis and optimization of cyclic peptide antibiotics. Nature 2002;418:658–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hu T, Chung YM, Guan M, Ma M, Ma J, Berek JS, et al. Reprogramming ovarian and breast cancer cells into non-cancerous cells by low-dose metformin or SN-38 through FOXO3 activation. Sci Rep 2014;4:5810.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Taylor TA. Guide to LEED® 2009 Estimating and Preconstruction Strategies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Rocha A, Correia AM, Costanzo S, Reis LP, editors. New Contributions in Information Systems and Technologies: Volume 1. vol. 353. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Canfora G, Di Penta M. Service-Oriented Architectures Testing: A Survey. In: Lucia AD, Ferrucci F, editors. Software Engineering: International Summer Schools, ISSSE 2006-2008, Salerno, Italy, Revised Tutorial Lectures, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 78–105.

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 Revue du podologue.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Infant Burials In Alaska Hint At How People First Colonized The Americas. 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. Payments for Independent Research and Development and Bid and Proposal Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gada KK. Numerical analyses of passive and active flow control over a micro air vehicle with an optimized airfoil. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Brunnermeier M, James H, Landau J-P. Pondering Franco-German relations anew. New York Times 2016:A13.

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	Revue du podologue
ISSN (print)	1766-7313
Scope	Podiatry