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

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

Dresser, R., 2012. Research ethics. Aligning regulations and ethics in human research. Science 337, 527–528.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morris, S.C., Caron, J.-B., 2014. A primitive fish from the Cambrian of North America. Nature 512, 419–422.

A journal article with 3 authors

Delamarre, L., Mellman, I., Yadav, M., 2015. Cancer immunotherapy. Neo approaches to cancer vaccines. Science 348, 760–761.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xu, J., Hofhuis, H., Heidstra, R., Sauer, M., Friml, J., Scheres, B., 2006. A molecular framework for plant regeneration. Science 311, 385–388.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gray, D.R.J.M., Al-Ani, D.M.Z., 2011. Temporomandibular Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Sachs, J., Parsell, M. (Eds.), 2014. Peer Review of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: International Perspectives, Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Rischpater, R., Zucker, D., 2010. Beginning Qt Development, in: Zucker, D. (Ed.), Beginning Nokia Apps Development: Qt and HTML5 for Symbian and MeeGo. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp. 59–86.

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 Journal of Neonatal Nursing.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Night Owls Have A Higher Risk Of Developing Diabetes Than Early Birds [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2001. Aviation Competition: Challenges in Enhancing Competition in Dominated Markets (No. GAO-01-518T). 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

Gibson, J.J., 2017. An Assessment of Factors Relating to High School Students’ Science Self-Efficacy (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Apuzzo, M., Fink, S., Risen, J., 2016. U.S. Torture Leaves a Legacy of Detainees With Damaged Minds. 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 (Dresser, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Dresser, 2012; Morris and Caron, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Morris and Caron, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Xu et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neonatal Nursing
Abbreviation	J. Neonatal Nurs.
ISSN (print)	1355-1841
Scope	Maternity and Midwifery