How to format your references using the Nurse Education Today citation style

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

Holden, C., 2000. MIDDLE SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT: Asia Stays on Top, U.S. in Middle in New Global Rankings. Science 290, 1866.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tzeng, S.-R., Kalodimos, C.G., 2009. Dynamic activation of an allosteric regulatory protein. Nature 462, 368–372.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hoffman, B.D., Grashoff, C., Schwartz, M.A., 2011. Dynamic molecular processes mediate cellular mechanotransduction. Nature 475, 316–323.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Conway, K.A., Rochet, J.C., Bieganski, R.M., Lansbury, P.T., Jr, 2001. Kinetic stabilization of the alpha-synuclein protofibril by a dopamine-alpha-synuclein adduct. Science 294, 1346–1349.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Manuele, F.A., 2005. On the Practice of Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Barbosa, D., Anton, S., Gurvits, L., Maia, D. (Eds.), 2012. The Square Kilometre Array: Paving the way for the new 21st century radio astronomy paradigm: Proceedings of Symposium 7 of JENAM 2010, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kobayashi, M., Nakai, H., 2011. Divide-and-Conquer Approaches to Quantum Chemistry: Theory and Implementation, in: Zalesny, R., Papadopoulos, M.G., Mezey, P.G., Leszczynski, J. (Eds.), Linear-Scaling Techniques in Computational Chemistry and Physics: Methods and Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 97–127.

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 Today.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Sea Stars Who Clone Themselves Live Longer, Healthier Lives [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sea-stars-who-clone-themselves-live-longer-healthier-lives/ (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, 1999. Y2K Computing Challenge: Day One Planning and Operations Guide (No. AIMD-10.1.22). 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

Huang, J., 2013. Multispectral Imaging of Skin Oxygenation (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Otis, J., 2016. Penn Station Inhabitant Gets a Home of Her Own. New York Times A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holden, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Holden, 2000; Tzeng and Kalodimos, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Tzeng and Kalodimos, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Conway et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nurse Education Today
Abbreviation	Nurse Educ. Today
ISSN (print)	0260-6917
Scope	General Nursing Education