How to format your references using the Seminars in Oncology Nursing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Seminars in Oncology Nursing. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Corbel S. Astronomy. Watching black holes spin. Science. 2004;303(5663):1480-1481.

A journal article with 2 authors

Isaksen ISA, Dalsøren SB. Atmospheric science. Getting a better estimate of an atmospheric radical. Science. 2011;331(6013):38-39.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ivany LC, Patterson WP, Lohmann KC. Cooler winters as a possible cause of mass extinctions at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary. Nature. 2000;407(6806):887-890.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bellwood DR, Hughes TP, Folke C, Nyström M. Confronting the coral reef crisis. Nature. 2004;429(6994):827-833.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gordon ME. Trump University Entrepreneurship 101. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Stock JA, Esposito MP, Lanteri VJ, Albala DM, eds. Urologic Robotic Surgery. Humana Press; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Blondin M, McKenzie P. The Complexity of Intersecting Finite Automata Having Few Final States. In: Hirsch EA, Karhumäki J, Lepistö A, Prilutskii M, eds. Computer Science – Theory and Applications: 7th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, CSR 2012, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, July 3-7, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2012:31-42.

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 Seminars in Oncology Nursing.

Blog post

Andrew D. Biological Vs Chronological Age: How Old Are You Really? IFLScience. Published November 16, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/biological-vs-chronological-age-how-old-are-you-really/

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. Serious Shortcomings in FAA’s Training Program Must Be Remedied. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vidal EM. Alcohol Disorder with Hip or Knee Surgery: Postoperative Alcohol Disorder-Related Costs and Length of Stay. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

Crow K. The Nanny Nightmare. New York Times. April 25, 2004:141.

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	Seminars in Oncology Nursing
Abbreviation	Semin. Oncol. Nurs.
ISSN (print)	0749-2081
Scope	Oncology(nursing)