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

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

Mackinnon, R., 2004. Structural biology. Voltage sensor meets lipid membrane. Science 306, 1304–1305.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kumar, S., Vaux, D.L., 2002. Apoptosis. A cinderella caspase takes center stage. Science 297, 1290–1291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zeyl, C., Vanderford, T., Carter, M., 2003. An evolutionary advantage of haploidy in large yeast populations. Science 299, 555–558.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Flores, E.R., Tsai, K.Y., Crowley, D., Sengupta, S., Yang, A., McKeon, F., Jacks, T., 2002. p63 and p73 are required for p53-dependent apoptosis in response to DNA damage. Nature 416, 560–564.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Franssen, J.-M., Real, P.V., 2010. Fire Design of Steel Structures. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Kuznetsov, S.O., Schmidt, S. (Eds.), 2007. Formal Concept Analysis: 5th International Conference, ICFCA 2007, Clermont-Ferrand, France, February 12-16, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, D.-H., Kim, K.-R., Kim, H.-J., 2013. Bunker Oil C Heating Using Induction Heating, in: Lee, J., Lee, M.C., Liu, H., Ryu, J.-H. (Eds.), Intelligent Robotics and Applications: 6th International Conference, ICIRA 2013, Busan, South Korea, September 25-28, 2013, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 25–30.

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 Journal of Neonatal Nursing.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. Scientists Discover How To “Switch On” Immune Cells [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-discover-how-switch-immune-cells/ (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, 1997. Proprietary Schools: Analysis of Comments Received From an Association of Schools (No. HEHS-98-12R). 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

Ziv, A., 2014. Dynamics in interactions with digital technology: A depth psychological/theoretical exploration of the evolutionary-biological, symbolic, and emotional psyche in the digital age (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Barnard, A., 2016. Wary of Russian Guarantees, Residents Are Staying Put in Aleppo. New York Times A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mackinnon, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Kumar and Vaux, 2002; Mackinnon, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Kumar and Vaux, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Flores et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neonatal Nursing
Abbreviation	J. Neonatal Nurs.
ISSN (print)	1355-1841
Scope	Maternity and Midwifery