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]

Piston DW. Research tools: Understand how it works. Nature 2012;484:440–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Boyd RW, Gauthier DJ. Controlling the velocity of light pulses. Science 2009;326:1074–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Park I-U, Peacey MW, Munafò MR. Modelling the effects of subjective and objective decision making in scientific peer review. Nature 2014;506:93–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Jevtov I, Samuelsson T, Yao G, Amsterdam A, Ribbeck K. Zebrafish as a model to study live mucus physiology. Sci Rep 2014;4:6653.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Shunmugaperumal T. Biofilm Eradication and Prevention. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Gama J, Gaber MM, editors. Learning from Data Streams: Processing Techniques in Sensor Networks. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hölttä T, Hari P, Heliövaara K, Nikinmaa E, Pumpanen J, Vesala T, et al. Fluxes of Carbon, Water and Nutrients. In: Hari P, Heliövaara K, Kulmala L, editors. Physical and Physiological Forest Ecology, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013, p. 225–328.

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]

Luntz S. Measurable Hallucinations Induced For The First Time. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/measurable-hallucinations-induced-for-the-first-time/ (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 Force C-17 Embedded Computers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Markarian LA. Strengths, challenges, and quality of life of ALS caregivers. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Novick SM. Shoppers Are Getting a Culinary Lift. New York Times 2014:LI9.

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