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. Gerber, Heinrich Rohrer (1933-2013), Nature. 499 (2013) 30.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G.L. Rikken, E. Raupach, Enantioselective magnetochiral photochemistry, Nature. 405 (2000) 932–935.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.M. Alexander, J.M. Diez, J.M. Levine, Novel competitors shape species’ responses to climate change, Nature. 525 (2015) 515–518.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. de Bono, D.M. Tobin, M.W. Davis, L. Avery, C.I. Bargmann, Social feeding in Caenorhabditis elegans is induced by neurons that detect aversive stimuli, Nature. 419 (2002) 899–903.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C.A. Stone, A. Zissu, The Securitization Markets Handbook, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

C. Staudter, Design for Six Sigma+Lean Toolset: Implementing Innovations Successfully, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G.D. Seidel, G. Chatzigeorgiou, X. Ren, D.C. Lagoudas, Multiscale Modeling of Multifunctional Fuzzy Fibers Based on Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, in: K.I. Tserpes, N. Silvestre (Eds.), Modeling of Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene and Their Composites, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 135–176.

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]

E. Andrew, How Poo-Sniffing Detective Dogs Can Save Elusive, Rare Gorillas, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-poo-sniffing-detective-dogs-can-save-elusive-rare-gorillas/ (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, Leasing Office Space: FAA’s Denver Solicitation May Have Unduly Restricted Competition, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P. Verkaik, Enhancing networking protocols in widely deployed devices, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 2010.

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. Brantley, Theater; Song, Dance and the Devil, New York Times. (2016) AR6.

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

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