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

von Hippel, F.N., 2001. Energy. Plutonium and reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. Science 293, 2397–2398.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kwon, H.-B., Sabatini, B.L., 2011. Glutamate induces de novo growth of functional spines in developing cortex. Nature 474, 100–104.

A journal article with 3 authors

Puckett, J.G., Kelley, D.H., Ouellette, N.T., 2014. Searching for effective forces in laboratory insect swarms. Sci. Rep. 4, 4766.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Narula, C.K., Allard, L.F., Stocks, G.M., Moses-DeBusk, M., 2014. Remarkable NO oxidation on single supported platinum atoms. Sci. Rep. 4, 7238.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gray, K.A., Paschkewitz, J.J., 2016. Next Generation HALT and HASS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Huang, D.-S., Bevilacqua, V., Figueroa, J.C., Premaratne, P. (Eds.), 2013. Intelligent Computing Theories: 9th International Conference, ICIC 2013, Nanning, China, July 28-31, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ducros, A., 2015. Cohomological Finiteness of Proper Morphisms in Algebraic Geometry: A Purely Transcendental Proof, Without Projective Tools, in: Ducros, A., Favre, C., Nicaise, J. (Eds.), Berkovich Spaces and Applications, Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 135–140.

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., 2014. Blood Test Could Predict Alzheimer’s 10 Years Before Symptoms Appear [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/blood-test-could-predict-alzheimer-s-10-years-symptoms-appear/ (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, 1998. Federal Surplus Ships: Government Efforts to Address the Growing Backlog of Ships Awaiting Disposal (No. NSIAD-99-18). 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

Dilenschneider, A.M., 2010. Refusing to be put aside: Women and the meaning of betrayal (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Kelly, K., Stevenson, A., 2017. Soros Fund Plucks Executive From UBS to Lead Investing. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (von Hippel, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Kwon and Sabatini, 2011; von Hippel, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Kwon and Sabatini, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Narula et al., 2014)

About the journal

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