How to format your references using the Asian Nursing Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Nursing Research. 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

Koenig, R. (2000). ACADEMIC FREEDOM: Political Scientist Becomes Cause Celebre. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5481), 846b–847b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sablowski, R., & Harberd, N. P. (2005). Plant sciences. Plant genes on steroids. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5715), 1569–1570.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bonabeau, E., Dorigo, M., & Theraulaz, G. (2000). Inspiration for optimization from social insect behaviour. Nature, 406(6791), 39–42.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Luyssaert, S., Marie, G., Valade, A., Chen, Y.-Y., Njakou Djomo, S., Ryder, J., Otto, J., Naudts, K., Lansø, A. S., Ghattas, J., & McGrath, M. J. (2018). Trade-offs in using European forests to meet climate objectives. Nature, 562(7726), 259–262.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minei, I., & Lucek, J. (2006). MPLS-Enabled Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rousseau, C. (2009). Mathématiques et Technologie (Y. Saint-Aubin, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jetley, R., Sudarsan, S., R., S., & Ramaswamy, S. (2013). Medical Software – Issues and Best Practices. In C. Hota & P. K. Srimani (Eds.), Distributed Computing and Internet Technology: 9th International Conference, ICDCIT 2013, Bhubaneswar, India, February 5-8, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 69–91). 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 Asian Nursing Research.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, March 16). Humans Killed Almost Three Million Whales During 20th Century. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/almost-three-million-whales-killed-during-twentieth-century/

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. (1992). Space Station: Resolving Conflict Over Integration Contractor’s Role (NSIAD-92-291BR). 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

Gogri, D. (2017). Effect of Water Hardness on Adsorption of Lead From Aqueous Solutions Using Douglas Fir Biochar [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State University.

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

Vecsey, G. (2011, November 30). College Athletes Move Concussions Into the Courtroom. New York Times, B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koenig, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Koenig, 2000; Sablowski & Harberd, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Sablowski & Harberd, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Luyssaert et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asian Nursing Research
ISSN (print)	1976-1317
Scope