How to format your references using the Soins Psychiatrie citation style

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

Grossman JN. PLANETARY SCIENCE: Enhanced: A Meteorite Falls on Ice. Science 2000;290:283–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Meldrum FC, Sear RP. Materials science. Now you see them. Science 2008;322:1802–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kim BS, Yook KS, Lee JY. Above 20% external quantum efficiency in novel hybrid white organic light-emitting diodes having green thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitter. Sci Rep 2014;4:6019.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Citroni M, Ceppatelli M, Bini R, Schettino V. Laser-induced selectivity for dimerization versus polymerization of butadiene under pressure. Science 2002;295:2058–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kadane JB, Schum DA. A Probabilistic Analysis of the Sacco and Vanzetti Evidence: Kadane/A Probabilistic. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1997.

An edited book

[1]

Kourkoulis SK, editor. Fracture and Failure of Natural Building Stones: Applications in the Restoration of Ancient Monuments. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zhou T, Wu B, Li Y, Liu H, Li L, Zhang L, et al. Metrics for Gauging Model Performance Over the East Asian–Western Pacific Domain. In: Zhou T, Wu T, Xue W, Zhou G, editors. Development and Evaluation of High Resolution Climate System Models, Singapore: Springer; 2016, p. 209–56.

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 Psychiatrie.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. How Does Stoned Sex Compare To Drunk Sex? IFLScience 2016.

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. Federal Communications Commission: Implementation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Correa L. Urban-rural differences in overweight and obese status among adolescents. 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]

Kishkovsky S. Aleksei German, 74, Director of Anti-Soviet Movies. 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 Psychiatrie
Abbreviation	Soins Psychiatr.
ISSN (print)	0241-6972
Scope	General Medicine Phychiatric Mental Health