How to format your references using the Archives of Psychiatric Nursing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Psychiatric 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

Knight, J. (2001). Meet the Herod bug. Nature, 412(6842), 12–14.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oh, D. Y., & Olefsky, J. M. (2010). Medicine. Wnt fans the flames in obesity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5990), 397–398.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fändrich, M., Fletcher, M. A., & Dobson, C. M. (2001). Amyloid fibrils from muscle myoglobin. Nature, 410(6825), 165–166.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Kmita, M., Fraudeau, N., Hérault, Y., & Duboule, D. (2002). Serial deletions and duplications suggest a mechanism for the collinearity of Hoxd genes in limbs. Nature, 420(6912), 145–150.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fraser, J., & Simkins, B. J. (2009). Enterprise Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Burke, E. K., & Kendall, G. (Eds.). (2005). Search Methodologies: Introductory Tutorials in Optimization and Decision Support Techniques. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Brimblecombe, P. (2011). Environment and Architectural Stone. In S. Siegesmund & R. Snethlage (Eds.), Stone in Architecture: Properties, Durability (pp. 317–346). Springer.

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 Archives of Psychiatric Nursing.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, July 7). Cats Are Living Longer And Healthier Lives Than Ever Before. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cats-living-longer-healthier-lives-ever-before/

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. (2008). Chemical Assessments: EPA’s New Assessment Process Will Further Limit the Productivity and Credibility of Its Integrated Risk Information System (GAO-08-810T). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Glassett Farrelly, S. (2013). Understanding Alternative Education: A Mixed Methods Examination of Student Experiences [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego.

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

Tavernise, S. (2015, August 9). A Moscow of Dancing Feet, Under an Iron Fist. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Knight, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Knight, 2001; Oh & Olefsky, 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Oh & Olefsky, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Kmita et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
Abbreviation	Arch. Psychiatr. Nurs.
ISSN (print)	0883-9417
Scope	Phychiatric Mental Health