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

Seife, C., 2000. INFORMATION THEORY: “Ultimate PC” Would Be a Hot Little Number. Science 289, 1447a–8a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, Y.K., Mazmanian, S.K., 2010. Has the microbiota played a critical role in the evolution of the adaptive immune system? Science 330, 1768–1773.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saborio, G.P., Permanne, B., Soto, C., 2001. Sensitive detection of pathological prion protein by cyclic amplification of protein misfolding. Nature 411, 810–813.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lancrin, C., Sroczynska, P., Stephenson, C., Allen, T., Kouskoff, V., Lacaud, G., 2009. The haemangioblast generates haematopoietic cells through a haemogenic endothelium stage. Nature 457, 892–895.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schmidt, A.B., 2011. Financial Markets and Trading. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kurosu, M. (Ed.), 2014. Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services: 16th International Conference, HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings, Part III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Reichstaller, A., Eberhardinger, B., Knapp, A., Reif, W., Gehlen, M., 2016. Risk-Based Interoperability Testing Using Reinforcement Learning, in: Wotawa, F., Nica, M., Kushik, N. (Eds.), Testing Software and Systems: 28th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, ICTSS 2016, Graz, Austria, October 17-19, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 52–69.

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

Andrews, R., 2016. How Will British Science Be Affected If The UK Votes To Leave The EU? [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, 2003. National Airspace System: Reauthorizing FAA Provides Opportunities and Options to Address Challenges (No. GAO-03-473T). 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

Holvick-Norton, T., 2015. Becoming Whole: The Process of Individuation for Women and Their Bodies (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Gorman, J., 2017. Maggot to Blowfly: Ready for Its Close-Up. New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Seife, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lee and Mazmanian, 2010; Seife, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Lee and Mazmanian, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Lancrin et al., 2009)

About the journal

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

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