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

Christian, C.E., 2001. Consequences of a biological invasion reveal the importance of mutualism for plant communities. Nature 413, 635–639.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moiseff, A., Copeland, J., 2010. Firefly synchrony: a behavioral strategy to minimize visual clutter. Science 329, 181.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stone, L., Olinky, R., Huppert, A., 2007. Seasonal dynamics of recurrent epidemics. Nature 446, 533–536.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Langdon, E.M., Qiu, Y., Ghanbari Niaki, A., McLaughlin, G.A., Weidmann, C.A., Gerbich, T.M., Smith, J.A., Crutchley, J.M., Termini, C.M., Weeks, K.M., Myong, S., Gladfelter, A.S., 2018. mRNA structure determines specificity of a polyQ-driven phase separation. Science 360, 922–927.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dudbridge, M., 2016. Handbook of Seal Integrity in the Food Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Aggarwal, C.C. (Ed.), 2009. Managing and Mining Uncertain Data, Advances in Database Systems. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Potylitsyn, A.P., Ryazanov, M.I., Strikhanov, M.N., Tishchenko, A.A., 2011. Diffraction Radiation in the Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Regions, in: Ryazanov, M.I., Strikhanov, M.N., Tishchenko, A.A. (Eds.), Diffraction Radiation from Relativistic Particles, Springer Tracts in Modern Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 105–136.

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. Amazing X-ray GIFs Show Joints In Motion [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/amazing-x-ray-gifs-show-joints-motion/ (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, 2002. Information Technology Services: Agencies Complying with Revision to Federal Acquisition Regulation (No. GAO-03-32). 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

Eaddy, M., 2008. An empirical assessment of the crosscutting concern problem (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

Kelly, B.P., 2005. Closing Time; Iskandariya. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Christian, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Christian, 2001; Moiseff and Copeland, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Moiseff and Copeland, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Langdon et al., 2018)

About the journal

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

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