How to format your references using the Nurse Education in Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nurse Education in Practice. 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

Winfree, A.T., 2002. Oscillating systems. On emerging coherence. Science 298, 2336–2337.

A journal article with 2 authors

Slater, A.G., Cooper, A.I., 2015. Porous materials. Function-led design of new porous materials. Science 348, aaa8075.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bascom-Slack, C.A., Arnold, A.E., Strobel, S.A., 2012. IBI series winner. Student-directed discovery of the plant microbiome and its products. Science 338, 485–486.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ayala-Sumuano, J.-T., Velez-delValle, C., Beltrán-Langarica, A., Marsch-Moreno, M., Hernandez-Mosqueira, C., Kuri-Harcuch, W., 2013. Glucocorticoid paradoxically recruits adipose progenitors and impairs lipid homeostasis and glucose transport in mature adipocytes. Sci. Rep. 3, 2573.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hong, G., 2015. Causality in a Social World. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Hens, T., 2016. Financial Economics: A Concise Introduction to Classical and Behavioral Finance, 2nd ed. 2016. ed, Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Huchet, J.-F., 2014. From Dirigisme to Realism: Chinese Industrial Policy in the Era of Globalisation, in: Richet, X., Delteil, V., Dieuaide, P. (Eds.), Strategies of Multinational Corporations and Social Regulations: European and Asian Perspectives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 57–76.

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 Nurse Education in Practice.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Two Ancient Maya Cities Unearthed In Mexican Jungle [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/two-ancient-maya-cities-unearthed-mexican-jungle/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1993. Federal Research: Advanced Technology Program’s Indirect Cost Rates and Program Evaluation Status (No. RCED-93-221). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Laird, T., 2008. Risk and protective factors associated with adjudicated versus non -adjudicated youths arrested for substance use (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by, 2005. Arts Briefly; Film Museum Closes in Moscow. New York Times E2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Winfree, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Slater and Cooper, 2015; Winfree, 2002).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Slater and Cooper, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Ayala-Sumuano et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nurse Education in Practice
Abbreviation	Nurse Educ. Pract.
ISSN (print)	1471-5953
Scope	General Medicine General Nursing Education