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

Simpson F. Resistance to mantle flow inferred from the electromagnetic strike of the Australian upper mantle. Nature. 2001;412(6847):632-635.

A journal article with 2 authors

Laver G, Garman E. Virology. The origin and control of pandemic influenza. Science. 2001;293(5536):1776-1777.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prescher JA, Dube DH, Bertozzi CR. Chemical remodelling of cell surfaces in living animals. Nature. 2004;430(7002):873-877.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lewis AC, Carslaw N, Marriott PJ, et al. A larger pool of ozone-forming carbon compounds in urban atmospheres. Nature. 2000;405(6788):778-781.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Banerjee S, Lawrence V. Managing Dementia in a Multicultural Society. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

Vincent JL, ed. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Vol 2006. Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen W, Lu P, Sun X, Tang B, Wang Y, Zhu ZA. Optimal Pricing in Social Networks with Incomplete Information. In: Chen N, Elkind E, Koutsoupias E, eds. Internet and Network Economics: 7th International Workshop, WINE 2011, Singapore, December 11-14, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2011:49-60.

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

Andrew E. Artificial Tweezers Block HIV, Herpes And Hepatitis C. 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. Millions in Savings Possible in Converting Programs From One Computer to Another. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kim G. Development of a Nutrition-Based Curriculum for Farm-to-School Programs for the Fourth and Fifth Grades. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

St. John Kelly E. The Magical Mystery Block. New York Times. April 12, 1998:147.

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