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

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

Saltykov, B. G. (2007). Russian science: breaking up is hard to do. Nature, 449(7162), 536–537.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hilfinger, A., & Paulsson, J. (2015). Systems biology: Defiant daughters and coordinated cousins. Nature, 519(7544), 422–423.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hillebrandt, H., Friston, K. J., & Blakemore, S.-J. (2014). Effective connectivity during animacy perception--dynamic causal modelling of Human Connectome Project data. Scientific Reports, 4, 6240.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Yamamoto, T., Koashi, M., Ozdemir, S. K., & Imoto, N. (2003). Experimental extraction of an entangled photon pair from two identically decohered pairs. Nature, 421(6921), 343–346.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. (2014). Trayed and Packed Columns. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Morava, E., Baumgartner, M., Patterson, M., Rahman, S., Zschocke, J., & Peters, V. (Eds.). (2016). JIMD Reports, Volume 25 (1st ed. 2016, Vol. 25). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Khojasteh, S. C., Wong, H., & Hop, C. E. C. A. (2011). Transporters. In H. Wong & C. E. C. A. Hop (Eds.), Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics Quick Guide (pp. 57–72). 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 Pediatric Nursing.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 21). Discovered: Stone Tools That Go Back Beyond Earliest Humans. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/discovered-stone-tools-go-back-beyond-earliest-humans/

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. (1979). Issues and Problems Relating to United States-Japan Trade (110554). 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

Ramakrishnan, L. (2009). Multi-level adaptation for performability in dynamic web service workflows [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana 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

Logan, L. (2013, April 26). Selfless. New York Times, MM54.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Saltykov, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Hilfinger & Paulsson, 2015; Saltykov, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Hilfinger & Paulsson, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Yamamoto et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Pediatric Nursing
Abbreviation	J. Pediatr. Nurs.
ISSN (print)	0882-5963
Scope	Pediatrics