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

Caruana, C. (2005). An eastern promise of regeneration. Nature, 435(7044), 998–999.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pardo-de-Santayana, M., & Macía, M. J. (2015). Biodiversity: The benefits of traditional knowledge. Nature, 518(7540), 487–488.

A journal article with 3 authors

Packer, C., Pusey, A. E., & Eberly, L. E. (2001). Egalitarianism in female African lions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5530), 690–693.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chao, H.-T., Chen, H., Samaco, R. C., Xue, M., Chahrour, M., Yoo, J., Neul, J. L., Gong, S., Lu, H.-C., Heintz, N., Ekker, M., Rubenstein, J. L. R., Noebels, J. L., Rosenmund, C., & Zoghbi, H. Y. (2010). Dysfunction in GABA signalling mediates autism-like stereotypies and Rett syndrome phenotypes. Nature, 468(7321), 263–269.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levin, R. (2011). Implementing the Wealth Management Index. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Paton, N. W., Missier, P., & Hedeler, C. (Eds.). (2009). Data Integration in the Life Sciences: 6th International Workshop, DILS 2009, Manchester, UK, July 20-22, 2009. Proceedings (Vol. 5647). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gaudou, B., Herzig, A., Lorini, E., & Sibertin-Blanc, C. (2012). How to Do Social Simulation in Logic: Modelling the Segregation Game in a Dynamic Logic of Assignments. In D. Villatoro, J. Sabater-Mir, & J. S. Sichman (Eds.), Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XII: International Workshop, MABS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2-6, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 59–73). Springer.

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. (2014, October 14). 25 Bizarre Genetic And Developmental Mistakes You Have to See to Believe. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/25-disturbing-freaks-nature-you-have-see-believe/

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. (1996). Resources, Community, and Economic Development Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments (AA-96-30(2)). 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

Wells, J. P. (2010). A case study of educators’ perceptions of the effects of high -stakes testing and accountability policies on high- and low-poverty middle schools in a Maryland school district [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Johnson, M. (2013, March 29). A Brief Resurrection. New York Times, MM50.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Caruana, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Caruana, 2005; Pardo-de-Santayana & Macía, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Pardo-de-Santayana & Macía, 2015)
Three authors: (Packer et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Chao et al., 2010)

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