How to format your references using the Newborn and Infant Nursing Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Newborn and Infant Nursing Reviews. 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

Stone AJ. Intermolecular potentials. Science. 2008;321(5890):787-789.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crickmore MA, Mann RS. Hox control of organ size by regulation of morphogen production and mobility. Science. 2006;313(5783):63-68.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiao Y, Jiang J, Huang H. Chemical dechlorination of hexachlorobenzene with polyethylene glycol and hydroxide: dominant effect of temperature and ionic potential. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6305.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Narymbetov B, Omerzu A, Kabanov VV, Tokumoto M, Kobayashi H, Mihailovic D. Origin of ferromagnetic exchange interactions in a fullerene-organic compound. Nature. 2000;407(6806):883-885.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang ZG. Internal Combustion Processes of Liquid Rocket Engines. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Jackson MB, Mookherjee S, Hamlin NP, eds. The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook. Second Edition. Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Mescher MF, Curtsinger JM, Jenkins M. Adjuvants and the Initiation of T-Cell Responses. In: Hackett CJ, Harn DA, eds. Vaccine Adjuvants: Immunological and Clinical Principles. Infectious Disease. Humana Press; 2006:49-67.

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 Newborn and Infant Nursing Reviews.

Blog post

Hamilton K. Juno Is About To Peer Under The Clouds Of Jupiter. 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. Information Resellers: Consumer Privacy Framework Needs to Reflect Changes in Technology and the Marketplace. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Du L. Economic Model for Vehicle Ownership Quota Policy Analysis. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park; 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

Landler M, Harris G. In Retaliation, U.S. Tells Russia to Shut Consulate And 2 Diplomatic Offices. New York Times. August 31, 2017:A7.

In-text citations

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

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	Newborn and Infant Nursing Reviews
Abbreviation	Newborn Infant Nurs. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1527-3369
Scope	Pediatrics