How to format your references using the Evidence-Based Nursing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Evidence-Based 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 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

Buesseler KO. Ecology. Fishing for answers off Fukushima. Science. 2012;338:480–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

England PC, Katz RF. Melting above the anhydrous solidus controls the location of volcanic arcs. Nature. 2010;467:700–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pelupessy P, Rennella E, Bodenhausen G. High-resolution NMR in magnetic fields with unknown spatiotemporal variations. Science. 2009;324:1693–7.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Koropatnick TA, Engle JT, Apicella MA, et al. Microbial factor-mediated development in a host-bacterial mutualism. Science. 2004;306:1186–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saleh JH, Castet J-F. Spacecraft Reliability and Multi-State Failures. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2011.

An edited book

Crowhurst M, editor. Beginning Teachers: Reviewing Disastrous Lessons. Rotterdam: SensePublishers 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Daniels JA, Bradley MC. Successfully Resolved Barricaded Captive Events. In: Bradley MC, ed. Preventing Lethal School Violence. New York, NY: Springer 2011:57–70.

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 Evidence-Based Nursing.

Blog post

Andrew D. 17 Psychological Tricks To Make People Like You Immediately. IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/17-psychological-tricks-to-make-people-like-you-immediately/ (accessed 30 October 2018)

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Avoiding Major Disruptions Will Require Strong Leadership and Effective Partnerships. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Baghaei Lakeh A. Approximate Analytical Solutions of a Generalized van der Pol Oscillator. 2013.

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

Bernard TS. Prosecutors Open Criminal Investigation Into Sweeping Equifax Data Breach. New York Times. 2017;B7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Evidence-Based Nursing
Abbreviation	Evid. Based. Nurs.
ISSN (print)	1367-6539
ISSN (online)	1468-9618
Scope	Fundamentals and skills