How to format your references using the Collegian citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Collegian. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Smith, A. B. (2003). Paleontology. Making the best of a patchy fossil record. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5631), 321–322.

A journal article with 2 authors

White, A. E., & Harper, J. W. (2012). Cancer. Emerging anatomy of the BAP1 tumor suppressor system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6101), 1463–1464.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hill, E. W., Jobling, M. A., & Bradley, D. G. (2000). Y-chromosome variation and Irish origins. Nature, 404(6776), 351–352.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Ilton, M., Bhamla, M. S., Ma, X., Cox, S. M., Fitchett, L. L., Kim, Y., Koh, J.-S., Krishnamurthy, D., Kuo, C.-Y., Temel, F. Z., Crosby, A. J., Prakash, M., Sutton, G. P., Wood, R. J., Azizi, E., Bergbreiter, S., & Patek, S. N. (2018). The principles of cascading power limits in small, fast biological and engineered systems. Science (New York, N.Y.), 360(6387).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goshtasby, A. A. (2017). Theory and Applications of Image Registration. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Matta, A., & Semeraro, Q. (Eds.). (2005). Design of Advanced Manufacturing Systems: Models for Capacity Planning in Advanced Manufacturing Systems. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Böcker, S., & Baumbach, J. (2013). Cluster Editing. In P. Bonizzoni, V. Brattka, & B. Löwe (Eds.), The Nature of Computation. Logic, Algorithms, Applications: 9th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2013, Milan, Italy, July 1-5, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 33–44). 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 Collegian.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, October 4). Saturn’s Moon Dione Might Have An Ocean Under Its Surface. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/saturn-moon-dione-might-have-an-ocean/

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. (2006). Space Acquisitions: DOD Needs Additional Knowledge as it Embarks on a New Approach for Transformational Satellite Communications System (GAO-06-537). 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

Luna, S. C. (2010). An integrated treatment program for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders: A grant proposal [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

Kelly, C. (2012, March 4). Austin Auteur Tries Traditional but Stays Eccentric. New York Times, A27B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Smith, 2003; White & Harper, 2012).

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

Two authors: (White & Harper, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Ilton et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Collegian
Abbreviation	Collegian
ISSN (print)	1322-7696
Scope	General Nursing