NursingPlus Open Referencing Guide
(updated Mar 2024)


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How to do citations in NursingPlus Open style?

This is the Citationsy guide to NursingPlus Open citations, reference lists, in-text citations, and bibliographies.
The complete, comprehensive guide shows you how easy citing any source can be. Referencing books, youtube videos, websites, articles, journals, podcasts, images, videos, or music in NursingPlus Open.

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How do you cite a book in the NursingPlus Open referencing style? (2024 Guide)

A book citation in NursingPlus Open always includes the author name(s), the publication year, the book title, and the publisher. Here’s an example

Here’s an example book citation in NursingPlus Open using placeholders:
Last Name, F. N. (2000). Title (E. F. N. Editor Last Name, Ed.; Edition). Publisher.
So if we want to cite, for example, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou we’d do so like this:
NursingPlus Open citation:
Angelou, M. (1969). I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1st ed.). Random House.
And an in-text citation book citation in NursingPlus Open looks like this: (Angelou, 1969)


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How to reference a journal article in the NursingPlus Open citation style?

How do you cite scientific papers in NursingPlus Open format?

Use the following template to cite a journal article using the NursingPlus Open citation format.

Here’s a NursingPlus Open journal citation example using placeholders:
Author1 LastnameA. F., & Author3 LastnameA. F. (2000). Title. Container, Volume(Issue), pages Used. https://doi.org/DOI
So if we want to reference this scientific article: “Testing consumer preferences for iced-coffee: Does the drinking environment have any influence?” by C. Petit and J.M. Sieffermann in NursingPlus Open: