How to format your references using the Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Zupanc GKH. Obituary: Theodore H. Bullock (1915-2005). Nature. 2006 Jan 19;439(7074):280.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davidson DJ, Andrews J. Ecology. Not all about consumption. Science. 2013 Mar 15;339(6125):1286–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Elbelrhiti H, Claudin P, Andreotti B. Field evidence for surface-wave-induced instability of sand dunes. Nature. 2005 Sep 29;437(7059):720–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zauderer BA, Berger E, Soderberg AM, Loeb A, Narayan R, Frail DA, et al. Birth of a relativistic outflow in the unusual γ-ray transient Swift J164449.3+573451. Nature. 2011 Aug 24;476(7361):425–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Monino JL, Sedkaoui S. Big Data, Open Data and Data Development. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Gerdjikov VS, Vilasi G, Yanovski AB, editors. Integrable Hamiltonian Hierarchies: Spectral and Geometric Methods. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. XII, 643 p. (Lecture Notes in Physics; vol. 748).

A chapter in an edited book

Black DC, Donovan J, Bunton B, Keist A. Modules. In: Donovan J, Bunton B, Keist A, editors. SystemC: From the Ground Up. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010. p. 47–58.

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 Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Hungry Snake Picked The Wrong Dinner. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hungry-snake-picked-wrong-dinner/

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. National Airspace System: Status of FAA’s Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Sep. Report No.: GAO-02-1071.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Adams TA. Improving Scores on Computerized Reading Assessments: The Effects of Colored Overlay Use [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 2012.

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

Dailey M. The Arts Fall Preview Is About to Drop. New York Times. 2017 Sep 9;A2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing
Abbreviation	J. Wound Ostomy Continence Nurs.
ISSN (print)	1071-5754
ISSN (online)	1528-3976
Scope	Advanced and Specialised Nursing Medical–Surgical