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

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

Sammonds PR. Planetary science. Creep and flow on the icy moons of the outer planets. Science. 2006;311(5765):1250-1251.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stengel M, Spaldin NA. Origin of the dielectric dead layer in nanoscale capacitors. Nature. 2006;443(7112):679-682.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shin C, Feng Y, Manley JL. Dephosphorylated SRp38 acts as a splicing repressor in response to heat shock. Nature. 2004;427(6974):553-558.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Volpert M, Mangum JE, Jamsai D, D’Sylva R, O’Bryan MK, McIntyre P. Eukaryotic expression, purification and structure/function analysis of native, recombinant CRISP3 from human and mouse. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4217.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wiebe VJ. Drug Therapy for Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat. John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

García CR, Caballero-Gil P, Burmester M, Quesada-Arencibia A, eds. Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence: 10th International Conference, UCAmI 2016, San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Gran Canaria, Spain, November 29 – December 2, 2016, Part II. Vol 10070. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

López-Milán E, Plà-Aragonés LM. Optimization of the Supply Chain Management of Sugarcane in Cuba. In: Plà-Aragonés LM, ed. Handbook of Operations Research in Agriculture and the Agri-Food Industry. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. Springer; 2015:107-127.

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 PeriAnesthesia Nursing.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. The First “Space Nation” Wants You To Live On Their Orbital Space Station. 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. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Glock M. Cultural Futuristics: Bringing Consciousness to Cultural Complexes and Soul to Scenario Based Planning. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2008.

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

Koblin J. Rare Netflix Cancellation: Costly ‘Marco Polo’ Is Done. New York Times. December 13, 2016:B2.

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 PeriAnesthesia Nursing
Abbreviation	J. Perianesth. Nurs.
ISSN (print)	1089-9472
Scope	Medical–Surgical