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

Friedlander M. Physics: A century of cosmic rays. Nature. 2012;483(7390):400-401.

A journal article with 2 authors

West SA, Gardner A. Altruism, spite, and greenbeards. Science. 2010;327(5971):1341-1344.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee J, Park J, Choi C. Identification of phenotype deterministic genes using systemic analysis of transcriptional response. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4413.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Feng L, Yang L, Huang Z, et al. Enhancing electrocatalytic oxygen reduction on nitrogen-doped graphene by active sites implantation. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Qiuwei Wu. Grid Integration of Electric Vehicles in Open Electricity Markets. John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Pyka A, Derengowski Fonseca M da G, eds. Catching Up, Spillovers and Innovation Networks in a Schumpeterian Perspective. Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Bergweiler W. Periodic Fatou Components and Singularities of the Inverse Function. In: Barsegian GA, Begehr HGW, eds. Topics in Analysis and Its Applications. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Springer Netherlands; 2005:47-59.

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. People With Creative Personalities Really Do See The World Differently. 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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Compliance Status of Many Biomedical Equipment Items Still Unknown. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kotamreddy A. Design and Simulation of 16 Psk Super Regenerative Receiver. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Wagner J. Mets Fall Again, and Bruce Is Pulled During Rally. New York Times. September 21, 2016:B9.

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)