How to format your references using the The Journal for Nurse Practitioners citation style

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

Ahmed F. Health: Edible advice. Nature. 2010;468(7327):S10-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hawker CJ, Wooley KL. The convergence of synthetic organic and polymer chemistries. Science. 2005;309(5738):1200-1205.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arimbasseri AG, Kassavetis GA, Maraia RJ. Transcription. Comment on “Mechanism of eukaryotic RNA polymerase III transcription termination.” Science. 2014;345(6196):524.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Billy J, Josse V, Zuo Z, et al. Direct observation of Anderson localization of matter waves in a controlled disorder. Nature. 2008;453(7197):891-894.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abdullaeva Z. Nano- and Biomaterials. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2017.

An edited book

Balkun MM, Imbarrato SC, eds. Women’s Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire. Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Daughenbaugh LR, Shaw EL. Judith Butler. In: Kirylo JD, ed. A Critical Pedagogy of Resistance: 34 Pedagogues We Need to Know. Transgressions. SensePublishers; 2013:17-20.

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 The Journal for Nurse Practitioners.

Blog post

Hale T. Year-Long Mars Simulation Mission Comes To An End. 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. International Aviation: Competition Issues in the U.S.-U.K. Market. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Whittle CM. The Genomic Distribution and Function of NFI and Histone Variant H2A.Z during Caenorhabditis Elegans Development. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina; 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

Crow K. A New Battleground for an Old War: The Internet. New York Times. November 4, 2001:1410.

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	The Journal for Nurse Practitioners
Abbreviation	J. Nurse Pract.
ISSN (print)	1555-4155
Scope	Fundamentals and skills LPN and LVN