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

Brauman, J. I. (2008). Chemistry. Not so simple. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5860), 168.

A journal article with 2 authors

Petersen, J., & Hagan, I. M. (2005). Polo kinase links the stress pathway to cell cycle control and tip growth in fission yeast. Nature, 435(7041), 507–512.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grinberg, I., Cooper, V. R., & Rappe, A. M. (2002). Relationship between local structure and phase transitions of a disordered solid solution. Nature, 419(6910), 909–911.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Liu, C.-M., Lin, H.-W., Lu, C.-L., & Chen, C. (2014). Effect of grain orientations of Cu seed layers on the growth of -oriented nanotwinned Cu. Scientific Reports, 4, 6123.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paschedag, A. R. (2004). CFD in der Verfahrenstechnik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Miksch, S., Hunter, J., & Keravnou, E. T. (Eds.). (2005). Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2005, Aberdeen, UK, July 23-27, 2005. Proceedings (Vol. 3581). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, D., & Terlaky, T. (2013). The Duality Between the Perceptron Algorithm and the von Neumann Algorithm. In L. F. Zuluaga & T. Terlaky (Eds.), Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications: Selected Contributions from the MOPTA 2012 Conference (pp. 113–136). 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

Davis, J. (2015, September 24). Researchers Link Humans Brains Allowing One To Guess What The Other Is Thinking. IFLScience; 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. (1975). Need for Improvements in the Automated Payroll System of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (FGMSD-75-31). 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

Kashyap, S. K. (2017). Bit Error Rate Performance of 4x2 Space-Time MIMO-OFDM Conjugate Cancellation Techniques [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

Walsh, M. W. (2015, September 10). Puerto Rico Unveils Painful Plan for Islanders, and Bond Holders. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brauman, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Brauman, 2008; Petersen & Hagan, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Petersen & Hagan, 2005)
Three authors: (Grinberg et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

About the journal

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