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

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

Friedman, S. D. (2008). Comment on “Magnetic resonance spectroscopy identifies neural progenitor cells in the live human brain.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5889), 640.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jayawardhana, R., & Ivanov, V. D. (2006). Discovery of a young planetary-mass binary. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5791), 1279–1281.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schulte, D. M., Burke, R. P., & Lipcius, R. N. (2009). Unprecedented restoration of a native oyster metapopulation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5944), 1124–1128.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Nie, L., Mei, D., Xiong, H., Peng, B., Ren, Z., Hernandez, X. I. P., DeLaRiva, A., Wang, M., Engelhard, M. H., Kovarik, L., Datye, A. K., & Wang, Y. (2017). Activation of surface lattice oxygen in single-atom Pt/CeO2 for low-temperature CO oxidation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 358(6369), 1419–1423.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blume, S. W. (2011). High Voltage Protection for Telecommunications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wasum-Rainer, S., Winkelmann, I., & Tiroch, K. (Eds.). (2012). Arctic Science, International Law and Climate Change: Legal Aspects of Marine Science in the Arctic Ocean (Vol. 235). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ester, M., Göhner, J. F., & Tilmes, J. (2016). Man the Irrational Animal? In A. Bahr & M. Seidel (Eds.), Ernest Sosa: Targeting His Philosophy (pp. 53–66). Springer International Publishing.

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 Regulation.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 9). Can The Power Grid Survive A Cyberattack? IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2012). Motorcycle Safety: Increasing Federal Funding Flexibility and Identifying Research Priorities Would Help Support States’ Safety Efforts (GAO-13-42). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pelser, C. R. (2010). Interpretation of Aaron Copland’s Duo for Flute and Piano [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

St. John Kelly, E. (1995, April 9). PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times, 1315.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Friedman, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Friedman, 2008; Jayawardhana & Ivanov, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Jayawardhana & Ivanov, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Nie et al., 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Nursing Regulation
Abbreviation	J. Nurs. Regul.
ISSN (print)	2155-8256
Scope	Nursing (miscellaneous) Issues, ethics and legal aspects