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

Gould, J., 2015. The cannabis crop. Nature 525, S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ley, T.J., Hamilton, B.H., 2008. Sociology. The gender gap in NIH grant applications. Science 322, 1472–1474.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cziczo, D.J., Thomson, D.S., Murphy, D.M., 2001. Ablation, flux, and atmospheric implications of meteors inferred from stratospheric aerosol. Science 291, 1772–1775.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pellikka, M., Tanentzapf, G., Pinto, M., Smith, C., McGlade, C.J., Ready, D.F., Tepass, U., 2002. Crumbs, the Drosophila homologue of human CRB1/RP12, is essential for photoreceptor morphogenesis. Nature 416, 143–149.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, 1998. Guidelines for Design Solutions for Process Equipment Failures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Knepper, T.P., Lange, F.T. (Eds.), 2012. Polyfluorinated Chemicals and Transformation Products, The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Caravenna, F., Dai Pra, P., 2013. Variabili aleatorie discrete: teoria, in: Dai Pra, P. (Ed.), Probabilità: Un’introduzione Attraverso Modelli e Applicazioni, UNITEXT. Springer, Milano, pp. 103–187.

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

Taub, B., 2016. All Psychoactive Substances Are Now Illegal In The UK [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/all-psychoactive-substances-are-now-illegal-uk/ (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, 1998. Statistical Agencies: Proposed Consolidation and Data Sharing Legislation (No. T-GGD-98-91). 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

Soheili, A., 2008. A transannular Cope approach toward the core structure of isocyclocitrinol (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Kanter, J., 2017. European Court Is Urged to Punish Hungary and Slovakia Over Refugees. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gould, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gould, 2015; Ley and Hamilton, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Ley and Hamilton, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Pellikka et al., 2002)

About the journal

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