How to format your references using the Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Grimaldi D. Paleontology. Pushing back amber production. Science 2009;326:51–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wilhite AW, Fong EA. Scientific publications. Coercive citation in academic publishing. Science 2012;335:542–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pielke R Jr, Wigley T, Green C. Dangerous assumptions. Nature 2008;452:531–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kajimura S, Seale P, Kubota K, Lunsford E, Frangioni JV, Gygi SP, et al. Initiation of myoblast to brown fat switch by a PRDM16-C/EBP-beta transcriptional complex. Nature 2009;460:1154–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

MacGowan C. The Twentieth-Century American Fiction Handbook. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Ustundag A, editor. The Value of RFID: Benefits vs. Costs. London: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kussul E, Baidyk T, Wunsch DC. Associative-Projective Neural Networks (APNNs). In: Baidyk T, Wunsch DC, editors. Neural Networks and Micromechanics, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 75–104.

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 Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Trials A Step Forward For Medicinal Cannabis But What Comes Next? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/trials-step-forward-medicinal-cannabis-what-comes-next/ (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. District of Columbia Public Education: Agencies Have Enhanced Internal Controls Over Federal Payments for School Improvement, But More Consistent Monitoring Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Moro JM. School Improvement Grants at Work: A Study of Urban, Public New England Schools. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2017.

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]

Yablonsky BYL. Body of Evidence. New York Times 2008:M2216.

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	Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal
Abbreviation	Australas. Emerg. Nurs. J.
ISSN (print)	1574-6267
Scope	General Medicine Emergency