How to format your references using the Applied Nursing Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applied Nursing Research. 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

Shastri, N. (2006). Cell biology. Peptides, scrambled and stitched. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5792), 1398–1399.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gosu, V., & Choi, S. (2014). Structural dynamic analysis of apo and ATP-bound IRAK4 kinase. Scientific Reports, 4, 5748.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ito, T., Woloszyn, M., & Mazloff, M. (2010). Anthropogenic carbon dioxide transport in the Southern Ocean driven by Ekman flow. Nature, 463(7277), 80–83.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Majumder, M., Chopra, N., Andrews, R., & Hinds, B. J. (2005). Nanoscale hydrodynamics: enhanced flow in carbon nanotubes. Nature, 438(7064), 44.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Escarpa, A., González, M. C., & López, M. Á. (2015). Agricultural and Food Electroanalysis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Spoto, G., & Corradini, R. (Eds.). (2012). Detection of Non-Amplified Genomic DNA. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

van Eck, W. H. J. M., Lenssen, J. P. M., van de Steeg, H. M., Blom, C. W. P. M., & de Kroon, H. (2006). Seasonal dependent effects of flooding on plant species survival and zonation: a comparative study of 10 terrestrial grassland species. In R. S. E. W. Leuven, A. M. J. Ragas, A. J. M. Smits, & G. van der Velde (Eds.), Living Rivers: Trends and Challenges in Science and Management (pp. 59–69). Springer Netherlands.

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 Applied Nursing Research.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, January 26). Mysterious White Object Spotted On Ceres. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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

Government Accountability Office. (2017). FirstNet: Efforts to Establish the Public-Safety Broadband Network (GAO-17-702T). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Payan Venegas, R. (2012). Factors associated with the lack of a regular health care provider for Latinos: Consequences and reasons [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Robbins, L. (2017, June 29). Despite ‘Sanctuary City’ Policy, Mayor Says New York Complies With U.S. Law. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Shastri, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Gosu & Choi, 2014; Shastri, 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Gosu & Choi, 2014)
Three authors: (Ito et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Majumder et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Applied Nursing Research
Abbreviation	Appl. Nurs. Res.
ISSN (print)	0897-1897
Scope	General Nursing