Medications Referencing for Nursing

Details information and examples on how to reference drug information. by Kelly Piwanski

Format

END-TEXT REFERENCE

Corporate author Year of publication, 'Medication name in single quotes', Publication Title in Italics, edn, pp. (page range).

 

IN-TEXT CITATION

(Corporate Author, Year of issue, page range)

Examples

The Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook, eight edition


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AIDH - title pageAIDH - reverse title pageAIDH - medications page

 

 

The Harvard end-text reference will be: 

The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia 2020, ‘Canakinumab’, Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook, 8th edn, p. 129.

 

The Harvard in-text reference will be: 

(The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia 2020, p. 129)

OR if you have included the abbreviation for 
the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) in your text, you can in-text reference as follows: 

(SHPA 2020, p. 129)

E.g.: The 
Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) is .... Canakinumab is suitable for.... (SHPA 2020, p. 129)