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

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

Du Pasquier, L. (2005). Immunology. Insects diversify one molecule to serve two systems. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5742), 1826–1827.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruprecht, P., & Plank, T. (2013). Feeding andesitic eruptions with a high-speed connection from the mantle. Nature, 500(7460), 68–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ishishita, S., Matsuda, Y., & Kitada, K. (2014). Genetic evidence suggests that Spata22 is required for the maintenance of Rad51 foci in mammalian meiosis. Scientific Reports, 4, 6148.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Kang, K., Meng, Y. S., Bréger, J., Grey, C. P., & Ceder, G. (2006). Electrodes with high power and high capacity for rechargeable lithium batteries. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5763), 977–980.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scot, L. (2010). The Simplified Guide to Not-for-Profit Accounting, Formation, and Reporting. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Clover, D. E. (2013). The Nature of Transformation: Environmental Adult Education (B. de O. Jayme, B. L. Hall, & S. Follen, Eds.; Vol. 11). SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Feiter, G., Fredriksson, L.-B., Hoffmeister, K., Pauli, J., & Zeltwanger, H. (2013). Higher Level Protocols. In W. Lawrenz (Ed.), CAN System Engineering: From Theory to Practical Applications (pp. 173–254). 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 Professional Nursing.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2015, October 21). How Well Did Back To The Future Predict Our Lives In 2015? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/did-back-future-ii-actually-predict-world-2015/

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. (2007). No Child Left Behind Act: Education Assistance Could Help States Better Measure Progress of Students with Limited English Proficiency (GAO-07-646T). 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

Warfield, B. S. (2017). Speaking of the Self: Theorizing the Dialogical Dimensions of Ethical Agency [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Pilon, M. (2012, June 3). How Do Kenyan 10K Runners Get to London? Through Raindrops in Oregon. New York Times, SP9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Du Pasquier, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Du Pasquier, 2005; Ruprecht & Plank, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ruprecht & Plank, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Kang et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Professional Nursing
Abbreviation	J. Prof. Nurs.
ISSN (print)	8755-7223
Scope	General Nursing