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

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

Chambers, J. (2014). Planetary science: A chronometer for Earth’s age. Nature, 508(7494), 51–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eddy, C. R., Jr, & Gaskill, D. K. (2009). Materials science. Silicon carbide as a platform for power electronics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5933), 1398–1400.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moore, J. D., Kirk, J. A., & Hunt, T. (2003). Unmasking the S-phase-promoting potential of cyclin B1. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5621), 987–990.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Colaprete, A., Barnes, J. R., Haberle, R. M., Hollingsworth, J. L., Kieffer, H. H., & Titus, T. N. (2005). Albedo of the south pole on Mars determined by topographic forcing of atmosphere dynamics. Nature, 435(7039), 184–188.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dunnivant, F. M. (2004). Environmental Laboratory Exercises for Instrumental Analysis and Environmental Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Katsy, E. I. (Ed.). (2014). Plasticity in Plant-Growth-Promoting and Phytopathogenic Bacteria. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jani, A. M. M., Yazid, H., Habiballah, A. S., Mahmud, A. H., & Losic, D. (2015). Soft and Hard Surface Manipulation of Nanoporous Anodic Aluminum Oxide (AAO). In D. Losic & A. Santos (Eds.), Nanoporous Alumina: Fabrication, Structure, Properties and Applications (pp. 155–184). Springer International Publishing.

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 Asian Nursing Research.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, June 15). Elaborate Accessories Keep Predators Away From Decorator Crabs. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/elaborate-accessories-keep-predators-away-decorator-crabs/

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. (2016). Polar Satellites: NOAA Faces Challenges and Uncertainties that Could Affect the Availability of Critical Weather Data (GAO-16-773T). 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

Fisher, E. (2012). Suffering God [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Kolomatsky, M. (2017, July 28). Energy Costs Compared. New York Times, RE2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chambers, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Chambers, 2014; Eddy & Gaskill, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Eddy & Gaskill, 2009)
Three authors: (Moore et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Colaprete et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asian Nursing Research
ISSN (print)	1976-1317
Scope