How to format your references using the Advances in Family Practice Nursing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Family Practice 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

[1]

H. Kitano, Systems biology: a brief overview, Science 295 (2002) 1662–1664.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E.C. Weatherhead, S.B. Andersen, The search for signs of recovery of the ozone layer, Nature 441 (2006) 39–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Zhuang, G.-R. Yu, K. Nakayama, A series RCL circuit theory for analyzing non-steady-state water uptake of maize plants, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6720.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.J. Keeling, M.E.J. Woolhouse, R.M. May, G. Davies, B.T. Grenfell, Modelling vaccination strategies against foot-and-mouth disease, Nature 421 (2003) 136–142.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Tunley, A. Whittaker, J. Gee, M. Button, The Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist Handbook, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

P. Busson, ed., Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: Keys for Translational Medicine and Biology, Springer, New York, NY, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G.K.H. Zupanc, Adult Neurogenesis in Teleost Fish, in: T. Seki, K. Sawamoto, J.M. Parent, A. Alvarez-Buylla (Eds.), Neurogenesis in the Adult Brain I: Neurobiology, Springer Japan, Tokyo, 2011: pp. 137–167.

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 Advances in Family Practice Nursing.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, These Are All The Weirdly Specific Things Facebook Knows About You, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/these-are-all-the-weirdly-specific-things-facebook-knows-about-you/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Intermodal Transportation: A Variety of Factors Influence Airport-Intercity Passenger Rail Connectivity, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Sanchez, For imagination and love – The permanence of the Mexican father who fathers at a distance, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2012.

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

[1]

L. Greenhouse, Justices Hear Arguments on Internet Pornography Law, New York Times (2007) A18.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Advances in Family Practice Nursing
ISSN (print)	2589-420X
Scope