This should be easy for you all.
I want to cite Standard 32.3 "The catheter selected shall be of the smallest gauge and length with the fewest number of lumens and shall be the least invasive device needed to accommodate and manage the prescribed therapy."
This is for an educational brochure. How should the citation be written?
There are numerous ways to format a reference. Look at the reference list for several journals and you will see differences in the sequence of the information. You will need the author's names (for a document like this I list INS as the author), name of document, year, issue and no. If you have taken a quote directly from the document, you should include the page number for that quote. Lynn
Lynn Hadaway, M.Ed., RN, BC, CRNI
Lynn Hadaway Associates, Inc.
126 Main Street, PO Box 10
Milner, GA 30257
Website http://www.hadawayassociates.com
Office Phone 770-358-7861
I tried some format sites and looked at examples. I couldn't figure out if the citation worked like a book or a journal, if the editor should be noted, etc etc etc. It didn't fit into the usual categories.
For an educational brochure, or anything you publish, this information should be decided by the organization publishing it. Would this be your hospital? Or are you doing this as part of a school project? Hospital may or may not have a chosen style for this formating, but your instructor probably will have a preference. Book vs journal style? I would choose journal for a project such as a brochure, but again decided by the publishing organization or purpose of the work. Lynn
Lynn Hadaway, M.Ed., RN, BC, CRNI
Lynn Hadaway Associates, Inc.
126 Main Street, PO Box 10
Milner, GA 30257
Website http://www.hadawayassociates.com
Office Phone 770-358-7861
Hi Jill,
I am in grad school and we use APA format. For your reference it would read like this:
Infusion Nurses Society (2011). Infusion Nursing Standards of Practice. Journal of Infusion Nursing, 34(1S), S37.
In the text, you would have this citation after the quote:
"The catheter selected shall be of the smallest gauge and length with the fewest number of lumens and shall be the least invasive device needed to accommodate and manage the prescribed therapy" (Infusion Nurses Society, 2011, p. S37). <-- period at the end.
Last, you could also have Infusion Nurses Society earlier in your brochure with the INS abbreviation after in parentheses (INS). This way you could abbreviate each time (INS, 2011) <--- like that, in the text only. The actual reference should be spelled out as above.
Hope this helps.
Carole
That helps! I was very close but not precise, thanks for the info.