How to Cite Progress in a Cardiovascular Nursing Journal

The American Psychological Association (APA) publishes a book annually that gives writers guidelines about citing professional works within academic papers and academic journals. Professionals in the nursing field use the APA style guide to cite both in-text works and as works used as a reference.

In-Text Citations

1. Give
   the author's last name in your in-text citation or in parentheses
   at the end of the sentence. For example, “Smith posits that nurses
   should use multimedia tools to educate patients about cardiovascular
   disease,” or “Nurses use a wide range of multimedia tools to
   educate their patients about cardiovascular disease (Smith).” If
   there is more than one author use the term et al to show more than
   one author was responsible for the work. For example, “Nurses use
   a wide range of multimedia tools to educate their patients about
   cardiovascular disease (Smith et al.)


2. Enclose
   in parentheses the year the journal published the article that you
   are using an in-text citation for. For example, “Nurses use a wide
   range of multimedia tools to educate their patients about
   cardiovascular disease (Smith, 2010).”


3. Give
   the page number of the journal you are quoting from, only if it is a
   direct quotation. For example, “Nurses use a wide range of
   multimedia tools to educate their patients about cardiovascular
   disease (Smith, 2010, pg 209).

Reference List Entry

1. List the
   author's last name and initials first. Separate the names with
   commas and place an ampersand before the last names if there are
   more than three authors. For example, Smith, T., Jones, T. &
   Miller, S.


2. Place
   the year the journal was published in the article within in
   parentheses. For example, Smith, T., Jones, T. & Miller, S.
   (2010).


3. Write
   the name of the journal article, capitalizing only the first word of
   the title and any proper nouns or adjectives. If the article title
   contains subtitles, capitalize the first word of the subtitle and
   follow the directions of capitalize proper nouns and adjectives.
   For example, Smith, T., Jones, T. & Miller, S. (2010).
   Cardiovascular education for patients: Using multimedia tools to
   teach.


4. Give
   publication information about the article, including the name of the
   journal, the volume of the journal (in italics) and the page number
   of the article. For example, Smith, T., Jones, T. & Miller, S.
   (2010). Cardiovascular education for patients: Using multimedia
   tools to teach. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 32.
   311-319.