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

Rodbell DT. PALEOCLIMATE: The Younger Dryas: Cold, Cold Everywhere? Science. 2000 Oct 13;290(5490):285–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alekseyenko AA, Kuroda MI. Molecular biology. Filling gaps in genome organization. Science. 2004 Feb 20;303(5661):1148–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Charlebois RL, Beiko RG, Ragan MA. Microbial phylogenomics: Branching out. Nature. 2003 Jan 16;421(6920):217.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lu C, Hu N, Yang M, Xia S, Wang H, Wang J, et al. High magnetic field phase diagram in electron-doped manganites La(0.4)Ca(0.6)Mn(1-y)Cr(y)O3. Sci Rep. 2014 May 9;4:4902.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leleux B, van Swaay H, Megally E. Private Equity 4.0. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Sumner J, editor. Learning, Food, and Sustainability: Sites for Resistance and Change. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016. XXXI, 270 p. 12 illus., 11 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Rehm G, Uszkoreit H. Language Technology Support for English. In: Rehm G, Uszkoreit H, editors. The English Language in the Digital Age. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 15–32. (White Paper Series).

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

Hale T. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. JAXA Releases Mind-Blowing Shots Of The Moon’s Surface. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/jaxa-releases-mind-blowing-shots-of-the-moons-surface/

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. Excluded Parties List System: Suspended and Debarred Businesses and Individuals Improperly Receive Federal Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Feb. Report No.: GAO-09-174.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gilmore KD. With their heads in the lion’s mouth: Exploring the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison through social contract theory [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Poniewozik J. The Eve of Destruction, as Seen on TV. New York Times. 2017 Sep 14;C1.

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