How to format your references using the European Journal of Oncology Nursing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Oncology 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Kiick, K.L., 2007. Materials science. Polymer therapeutics. Science 317, 1182–1183.
A journal article with 2 authors
Gorkin, D.U., Ren, B., 2014. Genetics: Closing the distance on obesity culprits. Nature 507, 309–310.
A journal article with 3 authors
Weber, J.N., Peterson, B.K., Hoekstra, H.E., 2013. Discrete genetic modules are responsible for complex burrow evolution in Peromyscus mice. Nature 493, 402–405.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Ni, C.Y., Murphy, M.P., Golde, T.E., Carpenter, G., 2001. gamma -Secretase cleavage and nuclear localization of ErbB-4 receptor tyrosine kinase. Science 294, 2179–2181.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Stanley, W., Pamela, B., 2017. The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, New Jersey.
An edited book
Nedović, V., Raspor, P., Lević, J., Tumbas Šaponjac, V., Barbosa-Cánovas, G.V. (Eds.), 2016. Emerging and Traditional Technologies for Safe, Healthy and Quality Food, Food Engineering Series. Springer International Publishing, Cham.
A chapter in an edited book
Dhaliwal, S., Deakins, D., 2014. Entrepreneurial Discovery and Asian Entrepreneurship in the UK, in: Lundström, A., Zhou, C., von Friedrichs, Y., Sundin, E. (Eds.), Social Entrepreneurship: Leveraging Economic, Political, and Cultural Dimensions, International Studies in Entrepreneurship. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 93–111.

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 European Journal of Oncology Nursing.

Blog post
Luntz, S., 2017. Ancient Populations Migrated Frequently, Mixing Up DNA [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-populations-migrated-frequently-mixing-up-dna/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2007. Passenger Rail Security: Federal Strategy and Enhanced Coordination Needed to Prioritize and Guide Security Efforts (No. GAO-07-459T). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Anemaet, W.K., 2008. The effects of non -surgical interventions on osteoarthritis-like changes in the mouse knee (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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
Saslow, L., 2008. Economy and All, Budgets Sail Through. New York Times LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kiick, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Gorkin and Ren, 2014; Kiick, 2007).

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

  • Two authors: (Gorkin and Ren, 2014)
  • Three or more authors: (Ni et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal titleEuropean Journal of Oncology Nursing
AbbreviationEur. J. Oncol. Nurs.
ISSN (print)1462-3889
ScopeGeneral Medicine
Oncology(nursing)

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