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

Giraldeau, L.-A., 2011. Psychology. When more is more. Science 334, 910–911.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buckley, Y.M., Han, Y., 2014. Ecology. Managing the side effects of invasion control. Science 344, 975–976.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wolfe, C.J., Okubo, P.G., Shearer, P.M., 2003. Mantle fault zone beneath Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii. Science 300, 478–480.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Benesh, E.C., Humphrey, P.A., Wang, Q., Moley, K.H., 2013. Maternal high-fat diet induces hyperproliferation and alters Pten/Akt signaling in prostates of offspring. Sci. Rep. 3, 3466.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paoluzzi, A., Pascucci, V., Vicentino, M., Baldazzi, C., Portuesi, S., 2005. Geometric Programming for Computer-Aided Design. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Mondal, P.P., 2014. Fundamentals of Fluorescence Microscopy: Exploring Life with Light. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Durinovic-Belló, I., Nepom, G.T., 2011. Characterizing T-Cell Autoimmunity, in: Eisenbarth, G.S. (Ed.), Immunoendocrinology: Scientific and Clinical Aspects. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 53–68.

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

Davis, J., 2017. Ebola Outbreak Has Been Confirmed In The Democratic Republic Of Congo [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2012. Commercial Space Transportation: Industry Trends, Government Challenges, and International Competitiveness Issues (No. GAO-12-836T). 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

Rudoy, S.I., 2014. Developing a model for understanding mindfulness as a potential intervention for obsessive-compulsive disorder (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Stewart, J.B., 2016. Trump-Size Idea for a New President: Build Stuff. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Giraldeau, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Buckley and Han, 2014; Giraldeau, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Buckley and Han, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Benesh 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