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APA Referencing – Nursing Resources - Difficult Examples
Some of the nursing books are particularly difficult to reference because they are adaptations, or
have many editors and/or authors. The information on the title page is often unclear or confusing.
Here are some of the examples you may use.
Contents
Books ........................................................................................................................................................................... 2
Elder, R. Psychiatric and mental health nursing ...................................................................................................... 2
Kozier and Erb's fundamentals of nursing (Chapter from the book) ....................................................................... 2
Lewis's medical-surgical nursing.............................................................................................................................. 2
MIMS new ethical.................................................................................................................................................... 2
Potter & Perry’s fundamentals of nursing ............................................................................................................... 2
Databases/Online Resources ...................................................................................................................................... 3
Newsletter ............................................................................................................................................................... 3
Resources from Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills .................................................................................... 3
Resources from MedSafe ........................................................................................................................................ 3
Resources from the Nursing Reference Centre ....................................................................................................... 3
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews ...................................................................................................... 3
Legislation ................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights Regulation.................................................................... 4
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Books
Elder, R. Psychiatric and mental health nursing
The people listed on the title page are not the authors of all the chapters; each chapter has separate
authors listed. On page ix, the people named on the title page are listed as editors, so this is, in fact,
an edited book with chapters by individual authors.
Barkway, P. (2013). Beyond theory: Understanding mental health and illness. In J. Elder
K. Evans, & D. Nizette (Eds.), Psychiatric and mental health nursing (3rd ed., pp. 123138). Chatswood, Australia: Mosby/Elsevier.
Kozier and Erb's fundamentals of nursing (Chapter from the book)
Hales, M. (2015). Community health nursing. In A. Berman, S. Snyder, T. Levett-Jones, T. Dwyer, M.
Hales, N. Harvey, ... D. Stanley (Eds.), Kozier and Erb's fundamentals of nursing (3rd Australian ed.,
Vol. 1, pp. 127-141). Frenchs Forest, Australia: Pearson.
Lewis's medical-surgical nursing
Neil, J. (2015). Nursing management: Preoperative care (L. Hamlin, Adapt.). In D. Brown, H. Edwards, L.
Seaton, T. Buckley, S. Lewis, S. R. Dirksen, ... L. Bucher (Eds.), Lewis’s medical-surgical nursing:
Assessment and management of clinical problems (4th ed., pp. 294-311). Chatswood, Australia:
Elsevier.
MIMS new ethical
If only one drug is used:
MIMS New Zealand. (2014). Loperamide. MIMS New Ethicals, 20, p. 19.
New Zealand: MediMedia.
If referencing the whole
book
MIMS New Zealand. (2014). MIMS new ethicals (Vol. 20). Auckland,
New Zealand: MediMedia.
Potter & Perry’s fundamentals of nursing
Burton, T. (2013). Hygiene. In J. Crisp, C. Taylor, C. Douglas, & G. Rebeiro (Eds.), Potter & Perry’s
fundamentals of nursing (4th ed., pp. 972-1036). Sydney, Australia: Mosby/Elsevier.
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Databases/Online Resources
Newsletter
Nursing Council of New Zealand. (2014, June). Newsletter. Retrieved from
http://www.nursingcouncil.org.nz/Publications/News-and-media-releases
Resources from Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills
Eyedrop administration. (n.d.). Retrieved from Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills (Midland
District Health Board ed.) database.
Resources from MedSafe
Medsafe. (2013, May 25). Panadol extra with Optizorb formulation. Data sheet. Retrieved
from http://www.medsafe.govt.nz/profs/datasheet/p/panadolextraadvancetab.pdf
Resources from the Nursing Reference Centre
The resources on this database include evidence-based practice sheets and quick lessons. They are a
bit tricky, as they are not journal articles, but many do have authors, date and title. It is suggested
that the entire date be included, where possible, as these are updated regularly. An examples of the
evidence-based care sheets is as follows:
Caple, C., & Cabrera, G. (2013, May 24). Diabetes mellitus, Type 1: Prevention. Evidencebased care sheet. Retrieved from Nursing Reference Centre database.
Schub, T. (2012, November 9). Abdominal injuries: Blunt trauma. CINAHL quick lesson. Retrieved
from Nursing Reference Centre database.
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
The articles on this are numbered like those of an online journal, with 12 numbered issues every 12
months. Note: The year and volume are in this case the same. Each article has a DOI. For example:
Singh, J., Kour, K, & Jayaram Mahesh, B. (2012). Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors for schizophrenia.
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2012(1), 1101.
doi:10.1002/14651858.CD007967.pub2
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Legislation
Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights Regulation
Reference list:
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The references start with the name of Regulation; as it is Government legislation no author is
given.
Although it is hosted on the Health and Disability Commissioner’s website, the HDC is not the
author.
Note that no part of the reference below is in italics.
The date is part of the title, so it is not preceded by a comma.
HDC Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights Regulation 1996. Retrieved from
http://www.hdc.org.nz/the-act--code/the-code-of-rights/the-code-(full)
In text:
In the opening paragraph of the assignment students will need to state the full name of the
Regulation, and put in brackets the shortened version they will use thereafter (HDC Code 1996).
They can use the shortened version throughout the rest of their assignment.
Using the name of the code as part of the sentence would look something like the example below:
This assignment focuses on the HDC Code of Health and Disability Services Consumer’s Rights 1996
(HDC Code 1996), which lays out ten basic rights that all patients are granted…
The Code defines this as meaning a “holistic view of the needs of the consumer in order to achieve
the best possible outcome in the circumstances” (HDC Code 1996).
If the Code is not referred to in text, the citation would look like the following example:
This assignment focuses on the ten rights every patient is granted (HDC Code of Health and Disability
Services Consumer’s Rights 1996 [HDC Code 1996])…
The Code defines this as meaning a “holistic view of the needs of the consumer in order to achieve
the best possible outcome in the circumstances” (HDC Code 1996).
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