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

Clayton J. Clinical approval: Trials of an anticancer jab. Nature. 2012;488(7413):S4-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Podgornaia AI, Laub MT. Protein evolution. Pervasive degeneracy and epistasis in a protein-protein interface. Science. 2015;347(6222):673-677.

A journal article with 3 authors

Draghici C, Wang T, Spiegel DA. Concise total synthesis of glucosepane. Science. 2015;350(6258):294-298.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Athale CA, Dinarina A, Mora-Coral M, Pugieux C, Nedelec F, Karsenti E. Regulation of microtubule dynamics by reaction cascades around chromosomes. Science. 2008;322(5905):1243-1247.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khatib T, Elmenreich W. Modeling of Photovoltaic Systems Using MATLAB ®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Liu Z, Wassyng A, eds. Foundations of Health Informatics Engineering and Systems: First International Symposium, FHIES 2011, Johannesburg, South Africa, August 29-30, 2011. Revised Selected Papers. Vol 7151. Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Quinteiro P, Almeida M, Dias AC, Araújo A, Arroja L. The Carbon Footprint of Ceramic Products. In: Muthu SS, ed. Assessment of Carbon Footprint in Different Industrial Sectors, Volume 1. EcoProduction. Springer; 2014:113-150.

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

Hamilton K. Male Mice Woo Females With “Love Songs” Similar to Songbirds. IFLScience. April 6, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/male-mice-woo-females-love-songs-similar-songbirds/

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. Student Loans: Default Rates Need To Be Computed More Appropriately. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Norton S. The Effects of Leadership-Efficacy and Personality on Reactions to Stress. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Cooper M. On Gun Ownership, and Attitudes, in America. New York Times. June 22, 2017:A9.

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