How to format your references using the Advances in Family Practice Nursing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Family Practice Nursing. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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]

C.-T.A. Lee, Geophysics. Are Earth’s core and mantle on speaking terms?, Science 306 (2004) 64–65.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. López-Carr, J. Marter-Kenyon, Human adaptation: Manage climate-induced resettlement, Nature 517 (2015) 265–267.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Barthelemy, J. Bertolotti, D.S. Wiersma, A Lévy flight for light, Nature 453 (2008) 495–498.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Xu, Q. Gao, Y. Zhang, Y. Tan, W. Tian, L. Zhu, L. Jiang, Preparing two-dimensional microporous carbon from Pistachio nutshell with high areal capacitance as supercapacitor materials, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5545.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Cauvin, F. Escobar, A. Serradj, Cartography and the Impact of the Quantitative Revolution, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

J.J. Talati, H.-G. Tiselius, D.M. Albala, Z. Ye, eds., Urolithiasis: Basic Science and Clinical Practice, Springer, London, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P.G. Altbach, The Complexities of Global Engagement, in: L.E. Rumbley, R.M. Helms, P.M. Peterson, P.G. Altbach (Eds.), Global Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Leaders: Briefs on Key Themes, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2014: pp. 19–22.

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 Advances in Family Practice Nursing.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, The 8 Books Neil deGrasse Tyson Thinks Every Person Should Read, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/book-recommendations-renowned-scientists/ (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, Air Traffic Control: Software Problems at Control Centers Need Immediate Attention, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.L. Urshel, The Technical Adequacy of Standards-Derived Curriculum-Based Measures for Reading Comprehension and Math Computation in Middle School, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2006.

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]

B. Sisario, Is It Time for a New Prince Moment?, New York Times (2017) C6.

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	Advances in Family Practice Nursing
ISSN (print)	2589-420X
Scope