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]

Singleton AB. Genetics. A unified process for neurological disease. Science 2014;343:497–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Cochella L, Green R. An active role for tRNA in decoding beyond codon:anticodon pairing. Science 2005;308:1178–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Cravatt BF, Simon GM, Yates JR 3rd. The biological impact of mass-spectrometry-based proteomics. Nature 2007;450:991–1000.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Boutros M, Kiger AA, Armknecht S, Kerr K, Hild M, Koch B, et al. Genome-wide RNAi analysis of growth and viability in Drosophila cells. Science 2004;303:832–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Thériault M, Rosiers FD. Modeling Urban Dynamics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Ruppert H, Kappas M, Ibendorf J, editors. Sustainable Bioenergy Production - An Integrated Approach. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chagarov EA, Kummel AC. Density Functional Theory Simulations of High-k Oxides on III-V Semiconductors. In: Oktyabrsky S, Ye P, editors. Fundamentals of III-V Semiconductor MOSFETs, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010, p. 93–130.

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. Ancient Exoplanet Could Support Life. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/ancient-exoplanet-could-support-life/ (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. Information Technology: HUD’s Expenditure Plan Satisfies Statutory Conditions, and Implementation of Management Controls Is Under Way. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Cox DC. A measurement of the neutral current neutrino-nucleon elastic cross section at MiniBooNE. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 2008.

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]

Kishkovsky S. A Festival in Red Square For the End of Summer. New York Times 2011:TR2.

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

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