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

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

Dennell, R. (2015). Palaeoanthropology: Homo sapiens in China 80,000 years ago. Nature, 526(7575), 647–648.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hightower, M., & Pierce, S. A. (2008). The energy challenge. Nature, 452(7185), 285–286.

A journal article with 3 authors

Broza, Y. Y., Zuri, L., & Haick, H. (2014). Combined volatolomics for monitoring of human body chemistry. Scientific Reports, 4, 4611.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Dall’Osso, F., Dominey-Howes, D., Moore, C., Summerhayes, S., & Withycombe, G. (2014). The exposure of Sydney (Australia) to earthquake-generated tsunamis, storms and sea level rise: a probabilistic multi-hazard approach. Scientific Reports, 4, 7401.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Derryberry, D. R. (2014). Basic Data Analysis for Time Series with R. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rennert, P. D. (Ed.). (2016). Novel Immunotherapeutic Approaches to the Treatment of Cancer: Drug Development and Clinical Application. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Delgado, S. V., Strawn, J. R., & Pedapati, E. V. (2015). Key Concepts in Two-Person Relational Psychology. In J. R. Strawn & E. V. Pedapati (Eds.), Contemporary Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents: Integrating Intersubjectivity and Neuroscience (pp. 79–113). 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 Journal of Pediatric Nursing.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, May 12). Staying Up Past Your Bedtime Could Leave You “Functionally Drunk.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/staying-past-your-bedtime-could-leave-you-functionally-drunk/

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. (2013). Intermodal Transportation: A Variety of Factors Influence Airport-Intercity Passenger Rail Connectivity (GAO-13-691). 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

Ackerman, G. L. (2009). Information technology in the K–12 classroom: Curriculum and instruction reflecting emerging capacity and paradigms [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral 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

Kishkovsky, S. (2006, January 2). Major Russian TV Station Is Accused of Censorship. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dennell, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Dennell, 2015; Hightower & Pierce, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Hightower & Pierce, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Dall’Osso et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Pediatric Nursing
Abbreviation	J. Pediatr. Nurs.
ISSN (print)	0882-5963
Scope	Pediatrics