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

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

Khodakhah K. Neuroscience: Decrypting a brain enigma. Nature. 2015;526(7573):326-327.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang J, Reth M. Oligomeric organization of the B-cell antigen receptor on resting cells. Nature. 2010;467(7314):465-469.

A journal article with 3 authors

Coussens LM, Zitvogel L, Palucka AK. Neutralizing tumor-promoting chronic inflammation: a magic bullet? Science. 2013;339(6117):286-291.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Seneviratne SI, Rogelj J, Séférian R, et al. The many possible climates from the Paris Agreement’s aim of 1.5 °C warming. Nature. 2018;558(7708):41-49.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lutzke D. Surfen in Die Digitale Zukunft. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

Moulaert T, Garon S, eds. Age-Friendly Cities and Communities in International Comparison: Political Lessons, Scientific Avenues, and Democratic Issues. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Eidem BW. Functional Evaluation of the Heart by Transesophageal Echocardiography. In: Wong PC, Miller-Hance WC, eds. Transesophageal Echocardiography for Congenital Heart Disease. Springer; 2014:121-144.

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 Chinese Nursing Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. New Laser Surgery Can Turn Your Eyes From Brown To Blue For $5000. IFLScience. March 11, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/lasers-can-turn-your-eyes-blue-brown-5000/

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. Success of the Programed School Input Program Justifies Expansion. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gao H. Extracting Key Features for Analysis and Recognition in Computer Vision. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University; 2006.

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

Wasik JF. Reverse Mortgages Are Quietly Making a Comeback. New York Times. July 22, 2016:B5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Chinese Nursing Research
Abbreviation	Chin. Nurs. Res.
ISSN (print)	2095-7718
Scope