How to format your references using the Nurse Leader citation style

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

Cifelli RL. Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925-2015). Nature. 2015;520(7546):158.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang HY, Malbon CC. Wnt signaling, Ca2+, and cyclic GMP: visualizing Frizzled functions. Science. 2003;300(5625):1529-1530.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rodell M, Velicogna I, Famiglietti JS. Satellite-based estimates of groundwater depletion in India. Nature. 2009;460(7258):999-1002.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Orzel C, Tuchman AK, Fenselau ML, Yasuda M, Kasevich MA. Squeezed states in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Science. 2001;291(5512):2386-2389.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ellis H, Lawson A. Anatomy for Anaesthetists. John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Movaghar A, Jamzad M, Asadi H, eds. Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing: International Symposium, AISP 2013, Tehran, Iran, December 25-26, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Vol 427. Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu XJ, Wang J. Singularity of Parallel Mechanisms. In: Wang J, ed. Parallel Kinematics: Type, Kinematics, and Optimal Design. Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering. Springer; 2014:129-148.

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 Leader.

Blog post

Andrews R. Glacial “Aftershock” Causes City-Sized Chunk Of Ice To Break From Antarctica. IFLScience.

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. Tax Systems Modernization: Private Sector Modernization Efforts IRS May Want to Examine. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Yu H. Parasitism of Subterranean Termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae: Termitidae) by Entomopathogenic Nematodes (Nematoda: Steinernematidae: Heterorhabditidae). Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona; 2009.

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

Kounios J. Eureka? Yes, Eureka! New York Times. June 10, 2017:SR6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Nurse Leader
Abbreviation	Nurse Lead.
ISSN (print)	1541-4612
Scope	Leadership and Management