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 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

Lucht, R. P. (2007). Chemistry. Femtosecond lasers for molecular measurements. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5822), 207–208.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kuwahara, H., & Gao, X. (2013). Stochastic effects as a force to increase the complexity of signaling networks. Scientific Reports, 3, 2297.

A journal article with 3 authors

Anderson, B., Cole, W. W., & Barrett, S. C. H. (2005). Botany: specialized bird perch aids cross-pollination. Nature, 435(7038), 41–42.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Yang, Y., Kim, A. H., Yamada, T., Wu, B., Bilimoria, P. M., Ikeuchi, Y., de la Iglesia, N., Shen, J., & Bonni, A. (2009). A Cdc20-APC ubiquitin signaling pathway regulates presynaptic differentiation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5952), 575–578.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moorhouse, M., & Barry, P. (2005). Bioinformatics Biocomputing and Perl. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Vayenas, C., White, R. E., & Gamboa-Aldeco, M. E. (Eds.). (2007). Modern Aspects Of Electrochemistry (Vol. 41). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Medeiros, M. F. T. (2016). Historical Ethnobiology. In U. P. Albuquerque & R. R. Nóbrega Alves (Eds.), Introduction to Ethnobiology (pp. 19–24). Springer International Publishing.

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

Davis, J. (2016, October 25). Child “Born Twice” After Earlier Surgery To Remove Fetal Tumor. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/child-born-twice-after-earlier-surgery-to-remove-fetal-tumor/

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. (1997). Hispanic Employment: Best Practices Used by Selected Agencies and Companies (GGD-97-46R). 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

Krishnan, R. (2014). Generalized Conditional Matching Algorithm for Ordered and Unordered Sets [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Hodara, S. (2016, May 15). In a Valley of Invention. New York Times, WE9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lucht, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Kuwahara & Gao, 2013; Lucht, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Kuwahara & Gao, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al., 2009)

About the journal

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