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

Pronin, E., 2008. How we see ourselves and how we see others. Science 320, 1177–1180.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yea, S.S., Fruman, D.A., 2011. Cell signaling. New mTOR targets Grb attention. Science 332, 1270–1271.

A journal article with 3 authors

Peters, A.J., Chen, S.X., Komiyama, T., 2014. Emergence of reproducible spatiotemporal activity during motor learning. Nature 510, 263–267.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shelby, J.P., Lim, D.S.W., Kuo, J.S., Chiu, D.T., 2003. Microfluidic systems: high radial acceleration in microvortices. Nature 425, 38.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brook, C.G.D., Dattani, M.T., 2012. Handbook of Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

McLysaght, A., Huson, D.H. (Eds.), 2005. Comparative Genomics: RECOMB 2005 International Workshop, RCG 2005, Dublin, Ireland, September 18-20, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Brilly, M., 2010. Danube River Basin Coding, in: Brilly, M. (Ed.), Hydrological Processes of the Danube River Basin: Perspectives from the Danubian Countries. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 125–141.

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. Meet The Parasitic Worm That Kills Giant Pandas [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-parasitic-worm-kills-giant-pandas/ (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, 1997. District of Columbia Draft Emergency Supplemental Funding Request for District of Columbia Public Schools (No. HEHS-97-116R). 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

Demenkoff, J.H., 2014. Evolution and emergence of the masculinities: Epiphanies and epiphenomena of the male athlete and dancer (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

Greenhouse, L., 2005. Supreme Court to Determine Fate of Business Tax Credits. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pronin, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Pronin, 2008; Yea and Fruman, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Yea and Fruman, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Shelby et al., 2003)

About the journal

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