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

Reenan RA. Molecular determinants and guided evolution of species-specific RNA editing. Nature. 2005;434(7031):409-413.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ratnieks FLW, Wenseleers T. Evolution. Policing insect societies. Science. 2005;307(5706):54-56.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee E, Pandey NB, Popel AS. Lymphatic endothelial cells support tumor growth in breast cancer. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5853.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yong SM, Lim ML, Low CM, Wong BS. Reduced neuronal signaling in the ageing apolipoprotein-E4 targeted replacement female mice. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6580.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prazeres DMF. Plasmid Biopharmaceuticals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Delcambre L, Kop C, Mayr HC, Mylopoulos J, Pastor O, eds. Conceptual Modeling – ER 2005: 24th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Klagenfurt, Austria, October 24-28, 2005. Proceedings. Vol 3716. Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Tamin MN, Shaffiar NM. Mechanics of Solder Materials. In: Shaffiar NM, ed. Solder Joint Reliability Assessment: Finite Element Simulation Methodology. Advanced Structured Materials. Springer International Publishing; 2014:45-73.

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

Fang J. How “Death Stars” wipe out potential planets. 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. Health and Human Services’ Estimate of Health Care Cost Savings Resulting from the Use of Information Technology. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Thompson K. Paid Formal Caregivers and Caregiver Burden: A Quantitative Study. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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

Corkery M. Business Leaders Urge Trump to Keep Shield in Place. New York Times. September 5, 2017:A11.

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

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