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

Chambers, S. A. (2014). Surface Science. Stability at the surface. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6214), 1186–1187.

A journal article with 2 authors

Melbourne, B. A., & Hastings, A. (2008). Extinction risk depends strongly on factors contributing to stochasticity. Nature, 454(7200), 100–103.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weaver, B. A. A., Silk, A. D., & Cleveland, D. W. (2006). Cell biology: nondisjunction, aneuploidy and tetraploidy. Nature, 442(7104), E9-10; discussion E10.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Cooper, V. R., Seo, S. S. A., Lee, S., Kim, J. S., Choi, W. S., Okamoto, S., & Lee, H. N. (2014). Transparent conducting oxides: a δ-doped superlattice approach. Scientific Reports, 4, 6021.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Audibert, P. (2013). Mathematics for Informatics and Computer Science. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cotta, C., & Cowling, P. (Eds.). (2009). Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization: 9th European Conference, EvoCOP 2009, Tübingen, Germany, April 15-17, 2009. Proceedings (Vol. 5482). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Reid, I. N., & Metchev, S. A. (2008). The Brown Dwarf — Exoplanet Connection. In J. W. Mason (Ed.), Exoplanets: Detection, Formation, Properties, Habitability (pp. 115–152). 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, D. (2016, June 20). Human-Pig ‘Chimeras’ May Provide Vital Transplant Organs, But They Raise Ethical Dilemmas. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/humanpig-chimeras-may-provide-vital-transplant-organs-but-they-raise-ethical-dilemmas/

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. (1990). Issues Related to FAA’s Fiscal Year 1991 Budget Request (T-RCED-90-66). 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

Salters, D. D. (2008). The effects of independent reading on the reading comprehension skills of sixth-grade students [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, June 29). justices uphold most remapping in texas by g.o.p. 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 (Chambers, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Chambers, 2014; Melbourne & Hastings, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Melbourne & Hastings, 2008)
Three authors: (Weaver et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Cooper 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