How to format your references using the Clinical Simulation in Nursing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Simulation in Nursing. 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

Sternberg, P. W. (2004). Developmental biology. A pattern of precision. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5658), 637–638.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, Y., & Yan, H. (2009). Chemistry. Designer curvature. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5941), 685–686.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yin, Q., Jacobsen, S. B., & Yamashita, K. (2002). Diverse supernova sources of pre-solar material inferred from molybdenum isotopes in meteorites. Nature, 415(6874), 881–883.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nagaoka, T., Inutsuka, A., Begum, K., Bin hafiz, K. M., & Kishi, M. (2014). Vangl2 regulates E-cadherin in epithelial cells. Scientific Reports, 4, 6940.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Arboleda, H., & Royer, J.-C. (2012). Model-Driven and Software Product Line Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Fernández-Prieto, D., & Sabia, R. (Eds.). (2016). Remote Sensing Advances for Earth System Science: The ESA Changing Earth Science Network: Projects 2011-2013. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Almeida, J. B., Frade, M. J., Pinto, J. S., & Melo de Sousa, S. (2011). Hoare Logic. In M. J. Frade, J. S. Pinto, & S. Melo de Sousa (Eds.), Rigorous Software Development: An Introduction to Program Verification (pp. 129–157). Springer.

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 Clinical Simulation in Nursing.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, January 22). Our Oceans Give New Insights On Elements Made In Supernovae. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/our-oceans-give-new-insights-elements-made-supernovae/

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. (2011). VA Education Benefits: Actions Taken, but Outreach and Oversight Could Be Improved (GAO-11-256). 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

Creason, P. J. (2015). The assessment of student learning outcomes at a California community college: Insight from faculty in a single department [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Acosta, D., & Robles, F. (2017, October 20). Month After a Storm, Puerto Rico Awaits Power. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sternberg, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Liu & Yan, 2009; Sternberg, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Liu & Yan, 2009)
Three authors: (Yin et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Nagaoka et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Clinical Simulation in Nursing
Abbreviation	Clin. Simul. Nurs.
ISSN (print)	1876-1399
Scope	Modelling and Simulation Nursing (miscellaneous) Education