How to format your references using the Vocation sage-femme citation style

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

Fisher K. BIOMEDICINE: “Glue Grant” Boosts Cell Signaling Consortium. Science 2000;289:1854a.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ogawa A, Sommer RJ. Developmental biology. Strategies to get arrested. Science 2009;326:944–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ben-David O, Rubinstein SM, Fineberg J. Slip-stick and the evolution of frictional strength. Nature 2010;463:76–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kwon YT, Kashina AS, Davydov IV, Hu R-G, An JY, Seo JW, et al. An essential role of N-terminal arginylation in cardiovascular development. Science 2002;297:96–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Mitola J III. Software Radio Architecture. New York, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2002.

An edited book

[1]

Pollin S. Software Defined Radios: From Smart(er) to Cognitive. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Delgado A, Calegari D. Changing the Focus of an Organization: From Information Systems to Process Aware Information Systems. In: Gaaloul K, Schmidt R, Nurcan S, Guerreiro S, Ma Q, editors. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling: 16th International Conference, BPMDS 2015, 20th International Conference, EMMSAD 2015, Held at CAiSE 2015, Stockholm, Sweden, June 8-9, 2015, Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 53–67.

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 Vocation sage-femme.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. 80% Of Cervical Cancers Preventable With Latest HPV Vaccine. 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. Batteries and Energy Storage: Federal Initiatives Supported Similar Technologies and Goals but Had Key Differences. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ho T. The influence of physical activity and unsafe neighborhoods on the development of gestational diabetes among women in California. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

Markoff J. Massachusetts Start-Up Trumpets Advance in Battery Capacity. New York Times 2017:B2.

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	Vocation sage-femme
ISSN (print)	1634-0760
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