How to format your references using the Seminars in Oncology Nursing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Seminars in 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	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

Granovetter M. Social science. Ignorance, knowledge, and outcomes in a small world. Science. 2003;301(5634):773-774.

A journal article with 2 authors

Strzepek RF, Harrison PJ. Photosynthetic architecture differs in coastal and oceanic diatoms. Nature. 2004;431(7009):689-692.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bernhard H, Fischbacher U, Fehr E. Parochial altruism in humans. Nature. 2006;442(7105):912-915.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Schlaggar BL, Brown TT, Lugar HM, Visscher KM, Miezin FM, Petersen SE. Functional neuroanatomical differences between adults and school-age children in the processing of single words. Science. 2002;296(5572):1476-1479.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cauvin C, Escobar F, Serradj A. New Approaches in Thematic Cartography. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Ślęzak D, Kim TH, Kiumi A, Jiang T, Verner J, Abrahão S, eds. Advances in Software Engineering: International Conference on Advanced Software Engineering and Its Applications, ASEA 2009 Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2009, Jeju Island, Korea, December 10-12, 2009. Proceedings. Vol 59. Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Fasthuber R, Catthoor F, Raghavan P, Naessens F. Case Study 1: DSIP Architecture Instance for MIMO Detection. In: Catthoor F, Raghavan P, Naessens F, eds. Energy-Efficient Communication Processors: Design and Implementation for Emerging Wireless Systems. Springer; 2013:137-170.

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 Seminars in Oncology Nursing.

Blog post

Andrew E. Hacking The Body: The Scientific Counter-Culture Of The DIYbio Movement. IFLScience. September 2, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hacking-body-scientific-counter-culture-diybio-movement/

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. Computer Misuse by the Sigma Corporation, a NASA Contractor. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Torres Garcia AC. The Impact of Health Insurance Coverage on the Use of Preventive Health Services and Healthy Behaviors: Evidence from Mexico’s Public Health Insurance Program “Seguro Popular.” Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2015.

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

de la MERCED MJ, Corkery M. Sale at Lord & Taylor: Start-Up Is Moving In. New York Times. October 24, 2017:A20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Seminars in Oncology Nursing
Abbreviation	Semin. Oncol. Nurs.
ISSN (print)	0749-2081
Scope	Oncology(nursing)