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

Fisk D. The Urban Challenge. Science. 2012;336(6087):1396-1397.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scher HD, Martin EE. Timing and climatic consequences of the opening of Drake Passage. Science. 2006;312(5772):428-430.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bayley PJ, Frascino JC, Squire LR. Robust habit learning in the absence of awareness and independent of the medial temporal lobe. Nature. 2005;436(7050):550-553.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Krause J, Orlando L, Serre D, et al. Neanderthals in central Asia and Siberia. Nature. 2007;449(7164):902-904.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wu Z. Software VNA and Microwave Network Design and Characterisation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2007.

An edited book

Howard A, Iagnemma K, Kelly A, eds. Field and Service Robotics: Results of the 7th International Conference. Vol 62. Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Olson DL, Wu D. Enterprise Risk Management in Projects. In: Wu D, ed. Enterprise Risk Management Models. Springer; 2010:43-55.

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

Carpineti C. The Terrifying Moment Paddle Boarders Realized They Were Surrounded By 15 Great White Sharks. IFLScience. May 12, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-terrifying-moment-paddle-boarders-realized-they-were-surrounded-by-15-great-white-sharks/

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. Business Systems Modernization: Air Force Needs to Fully Define Policies and Procedures for Institutionally Managing Investments. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tan SW. A Pedagogical Approach to Selected Études from Étude En Douze Exercices, S.136 and Études d ’exécution Transcendante, S.139 by Franz Liszt. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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. Cespedes’s Bat Gives Mets a Much-Needed Lift. New York Times. August 30, 2016:B14.

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)