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

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

Frierson DMW. Atmospheric science. Frictional dissipation--blame it on the rain. Science. 2012;335(6071):925-926.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schramke V, Allshire R. Hairpin RNAs and retrotransposon LTRs effect RNAi and chromatin-based gene silencing. Science. 2003;301(5636):1069-1074.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lorenz K, Lohse MJ, Quitterer U. Protein kinase C switches the Raf kinase inhibitor from Raf-1 to GRK-2. Nature. 2003;426(6966):574-579.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Deluga GA, Salge JR, Schmidt LD, Verykios XE. Renewable hydrogen from ethanol by autothermal reforming. Science. 2004;303(5660):993-997.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Miller RE. Optimization. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1999.

An edited book

Galarza AIR. Introduction to Classical Geometries. (Seade J, ed.). Birkhäuser; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Maciocco G, Tagliagambe S. What We Want or the Kitsch City and the City of Conformism. In: Tagliagambe S, ed. People and Space: New Forms of Interaction in the City Project. Springer Netherlands; 2009:31-39.

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 Nursing Education.

Blog post

Andrew E. Scientists Selectively Erase And Restore Memories. IFLScience. Published June 2, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-selectively-erase-and-restore-memories/

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. National Highway System: Refinements Would Strengthen the System. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fanelli RM. Effects of Urbanization and Infiltration-Based Watershed Restoration on the Hydro-Ecology of Headwater Streams. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park; 2017.

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

Barron J. When a Brooklyn Graveyard Can’t Expand Outward, It Looks Within. New York Times. June 22, 2017:A22.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Journal of Nursing Education
Abbreviation	J. Nurs. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0148-4834
ISSN (online)	1938-2421
Scope	General Nursing Education

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