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

Yablonovitch E. APPLIED PHYSICS: How to Be Truly Photonic. Science. 2000 Jul 28;289(5479):557–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mattaj IW, Tocchini-Valentini GP. Laying solid foundations for Europe. Nature. 2007 May 24;447(7143):377–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bhandawat V, Reisert J, Yau KW. Elementary response of olfactory receptor neurons to odorants. Science. 2005 Jun 24;308(5730):1931–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mukamel R, Gelbard H, Arieli A, Hasson U, Fried I, Malach R. Coupling between neuronal firing, field potentials, and FMRI in human auditory cortex. Science. 2005 Aug 5;309(5736):951–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Le Chevalier F, Lesselier D, Staraj R. Non-standard Antennas. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2011.

An edited book

Wohlleben W, Spellig T, Müller-Tiemann B, editors. Biocombinatorial Approaches for Drug Finding. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. XVIII, 284 p. (Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop; vol. 51).

A chapter in an edited book

Ruschhaupt A, Muga JG, Hegerfeldt GC. Detector Models for the Quantum Time of Arrival. In: Muga G, Ruschhaupt A, Campo A del, editors. Time in Quantum Mechanics - Vol 2. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 65–96. (Lecture Notes in Physics).

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; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. This Font Could Make It Easier To Learn Japanese. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/slightly-easier-way-learn-japanese-typographic-project/

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. Need for NASA To Provide Congress More Complete Cost Information on Its Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980 Nov. Report No.: PSAD-81-7.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Murray RW. The Florida Migrant Education Program: An analysis of programmatic and expenditure practices [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University; 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

Hubbard B. How Did Yoda End Up With a King? New York Times. 2017 Sep 21;A12.

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