How to format your references using the Soins Aides-soignantes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Soins Aides-soignantes. 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]

Marshak MP. My trek back to science. Science 2015;349:1406.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

King M-C, Motulsky AG. Human genetics. Mapping human history. Science 2002;298:2342–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sainsbury S, Niesser J, Cramer P. Structure and function of the initially transcribing RNA polymerase II-TFIIB complex. Nature 2013;493:437–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yen W-C, Chen Y-Z, Yeh C-H, He J-H, Chiu P-W, Chueh Y-L. Direct growth of self-crystallized graphene and graphite nanoballs with Ni vapor-assisted growth: from controllable growth to material characterization. Sci Rep 2014;4:4739.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Forshaw M. Understanding Headaches and Migraines. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Hesselbach J, Herrmann C, editors. Functional Thinking for Value Creation: Proceedings of the 3rd CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product Service Systems, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, May 5th - 6th, 2011. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Telysheva G, Dizhbite T, Andersone A, Volperts A. Adsorption Behaviour of Lignosulphonates on the Interfaces Water–Inorganic/Organic Solids, Used for Paper Production. In: Mota JP, Lyubchik S, editors. Recent Advances in Adsorption Processes for Environmental Protection and Security, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008, p. 55–64.

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 Soins Aides-soignantes.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Check Out This Live stream Of Deep Underwater Exploration Around Hawaii. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/check-out-livestream-deep-underwater-exploration-around-hawaii/ (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. Telecommunications: Issues in Providing Cable and Satellite Television Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gilman DG. Comparative analysis of corporate culture in a multinational organization. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2013.

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. Justices Raise Doubts on Campaign Finance Law. New York Times 2007:A1.

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	Soins Aides-soignantes
ISSN (print)	1770-9857
Scope	General Nursing