How to format your references using the Soins Cadres citation style

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

Gladysz JA. Chemistry. Fluorous to the core. Science 2006;313:1249–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Guttman M, Rinn JL. Modular regulatory principles of large non-coding RNAs. Nature 2012;482:339–46.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Levine ES, Blitz L, Heiles C. The spiral structure of the outer Milky Way in hydrogen. Science 2006;312:1773–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hansen SG, Powers CJ, Richards R, Ventura AB, Ford JC, Siess D, et al. Evasion of CD8+ T cells is critical for superinfection by cytomegalovirus. Science 2010;328:102–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Silk RD, Lintott JW. Managing Foundations and Charitable Trusts. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Müller KA, Bussmann-Holder A, editors. Superconductivity in Complex Systems: -/-. vol. 114. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Karmakar A. E-Governance and Its Role in Infrastructure Services of UAE, Case Study—Dubai. In: Vinod Kumar TM, editor. E-Governance for Smart Cities, Singapore: Springer; 2015, p. 81–97.

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 Cadres.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Astronomers Spot Incredibly Rare Quasar Quartet. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/rare-sighting-four-quasars/ (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. U.S. Economic Aid for the West Bank and Gaza. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Altiparmak F. Online Management and Mining of Heteregenous and Dynamic Time Series. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 2008.

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]

Walsh MW. Pension Ruling in Detroit Echoes West to California. New York Times 2013:A20.

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 Cadres
ISSN (print)	0183-2980
Scope	Health Policy General Nursing