How to format your references using the European Journal of Oncology Nursing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Oncology 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 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

Jeltsch, A., 2010. Molecular biology. Phylogeny of methylomes. Science 328, 837–838.

A journal article with 2 authors

McCollom, T.M., Hynek, B.M., 2005. A volcanic environment for bedrock diagenesis at Meridiani Planum on Mars. Nature 438, 1129–1131.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dubal, D.P., Holze, R., Gomez-Romero, P., 2014. Development of hybrid materials based on sponge supported reduced graphene oxide and transition metal hydroxides for hybrid energy storage devices. Sci. Rep. 4, 7349.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Albertini, A.A.V., Wernimont, A.K., Muziol, T., Ravelli, R.B.G., Clapier, C.R., Schoehn, G., Weissenhorn, W., Ruigrok, R.W.H., 2006. Crystal structure of the rabies virus nucleoprotein-RNA complex. Science 313, 360–363.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott, A.W., Frobenius, R., 2008. RF Measurements for Cellular Phones and Wireless Data Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Russew, K., 2016. Glassy Metals, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Maccabruni, A., Mora, R., 2006. Diagnosis of Infection, in: Mora, R. (Ed.), Nonunion of the Long Bones: Diagnosis and Treatment with Compression-Distraction Techniques. Springer, Milano, pp. 47–54.

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 European Journal of Oncology Nursing.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Shell Fossils Suggest Our Prehistoric Ancestors Brought Tools to Europe Via the Near East [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/shell-fossils-suggest-our-prehistoric-ancestors-brought-tools-europe-near-east/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1978. The Department of the Interior’s Computerized Resources Information Bank (No. EMD-78-17). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Migues, K.P., 2017. A Qualitative Exploration of Retention of Experienced Teachers: Why Do They Stay? (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Sisario, B., 2017. ‘Fake’ Stars On Spotify? The Reality May Differ. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jeltsch, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Jeltsch, 2010; McCollom and Hynek, 2005).

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

Two authors: (McCollom and Hynek, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Albertini et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Oncology Nursing
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Oncol. Nurs.
ISSN (print)	1462-3889
Scope	General Medicine Oncology(nursing)