How to format your references using the The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Continuing Education in 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	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

Moolgavkar SH. Consideration of copollutants. Science. 2000;290(5491):453d.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burton DR, Wilson IA. Immunology. Square-dancing antibodies. Science. 2007;317(5844):1507-1508.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sidhu ABS, Verdier-Pinard D, Fidock DA. Chloroquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites conferred by pfcrt mutations. Science. 2002;298(5591):210-213.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cui L, Wang P, Chen X, Fang Y, Zhang Z, Sun M. Plasmon-driven dimerization via S-S chemical bond in an aqueous environment. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7221.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Engineering Design for Process Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Larsson L, Stern F, Visonneau M, eds. Numerical Ship Hydrodynamics: An Assessment of the Gothenburg 2010 Workshop. Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Zawadzki P. Improved Estimation of Success Probability of the Shor’s Algorithm. In: Kwiecień A, Gaj P, Stera P, eds. Computer Networks: 17th Conference, CN 2010, Ustroń, Poland, June 15-19, 2010. Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer; 2010:49-57.

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 of Continuing Education in Nursing.

Blog post

Andrew E. Immune Cells From Stressed Mice Have Antidepressant Effects. IFLScience. January 30, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/immune-cells-stressed-mice-have-antidepressant-effects/

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. Survey of Workforce Investment Board Directors on the Use of Individual Training Accounts, an E-Supplement to GAO-05-650. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Warren KL. Agents of Change: A New Role for Learners in Online Workplace Training. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University; 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

Beschloss M. The Buck Shouldn’t Stop Here. New York Times. October 30, 2017:BR8.

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 of Continuing Education in Nursing
Abbreviation	J. Contin. Educ. Nurs.
ISSN (print)	0022-0124
ISSN (online)	1938-2472
Scope	Review and Exam Preparation