How to format your references using the Nurse Education in Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nurse Education in Practice. 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

Junge, C., 2011. Morbidity: A personal response. Nature 480, S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chander, R., Mervis, J., 2001. The bottom line for U.S. life scientists. Science 294, 395.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sheffield, J., Wood, E.F., Roderick, M.L., 2012. Little change in global drought over the past 60 years. Nature 491, 435–438.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chandra, P., Coleman, P., Mydosh, J.A., Tripathi, V., 2002. Hidden orbital order in the heavy fermion metal URu(2)Si(2). Nature 417, 831–834.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Muccini, M., Toffanin, S., 2016. Organic Light-Emitting Transistors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Nadaf, A., 2016. Scented rice (Oryza sativa L.) Cultivars of India: A Perspective on Quality and Diversity, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer India, New Delhi.

A chapter in an edited book

Krause, W.K.H., 2009. Sperm Functions Influenced by Immune Reactions, in: Krause, W.K.H., Naz, R.K. (Eds.), Immune Infertility: The Impact of Immune Reactions on Human Infertility. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 49–65.

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 Nurse Education in Practice.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. New Observation Of Photosynthesis Reveals How Much We Don’t Know [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2009. Next Generation Air Transportation System: Status of Transformation and Issues Associated with Midterm Implementation of Capabilities (No. GAO-09-479T). 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

Boyd, J.L., 2017. Interactive simulations: Improving learning retention in knowledge-based online training courses (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Alexander, K., 2001. The Day My Free Computer Music Died. New York Times 96.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Junge, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Chander and Mervis, 2001; Junge, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Chander and Mervis, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Chandra et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nurse Education in Practice
Abbreviation	Nurse Educ. Pract.
ISSN (print)	1471-5953
Scope	General Medicine General Nursing Education