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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Kappeler, P. M. (2013). Evolution. Why male mammals are monogamous. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6145), 469–470.

A journal article with 2 authors

Haran, B., & Poliakoff, M. (2011). SPORE series winner. The periodic table of videos. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6033), 1046–1047.

A journal article with 3 authors

McMichael, A. J., Butler, C. D., & Folke, C. (2003). New visions for addressing sustainability. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5652), 1919–1920.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Lucchetta, E. M., Lee, J. H., Fu, L. A., Patel, N. H., & Ismagilov, R. F. (2005). Dynamics of Drosophila embryonic patterning network perturbed in space and time using microfluidics. Nature, 434(7037), 1134–1138.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pasternak, H., Hoch, H.-U., & Füg, D. (2010). Stahltragwerke im Industriebau. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Yang, G.-Z. (Ed.). (2006). Body Sensor Networks. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Suzuki, Y. (2015). Polyol Metabolism and Stress Tolerance in Horticultural Plants. In Y. Kanayama & A. Kochetov (Eds.), Abiotic Stress Biology in Horticultural Plants (pp. 59–73). Springer Japan.

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

Fang, J. (2014, April 3). NASA Cuts Ties with Russia. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-cuts-ties-russia/

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. (2009). Information Technology: Management and Oversight of Projects Totaling Billions of Dollars Need Attention (GAO-09-624T). 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

Jackson, R. A. (2017). Musculoskeletal Injuries in California Ocean Lifeguards [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

Hubbard, B. (2016, October 18). Short-Term Cease-Fire in Yemen Appears Likely. New York Times, A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kappeler, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Haran & Poliakoff, 2011; Kappeler, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Haran & Poliakoff, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Lucchetta et al., 2005)

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