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Doing references? You need to know about ‘e12356’. What is it and how do I use it?

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Referencing is complicated, information is all over the place and it might be hard to pinpoint where the volume number is and what number is the issue number. You might waste a lot of time on that one journal article you really need to reference and have five or more different tabs opened all showing the same article in a different style.

This can all get confusing with lack of documentation in your school referencing guidelines and online sources saying different answers for the same referencing style.

Traditionally, you are most likely familiar with the following format: pages 1-76. So what is e12356? The ‘e’ stands for electronic—it’s a new format for journal articles to identify themselves online instead of using page numbers, they use a new numerical tag. You may have seen it before, can you spot the page number for this journal article?

Example: Nurs Inq. 2020 Jul;27(3):e12356. doi: 10.1111/nin.12356. Epub 2020 Jun 9.

So how do I reference it?

You simply use the eLocator number in place of where you would put the page number.

Example

Harvard 2014 v2.6.6

AUTHOR, Year. Title of article. Title of Journal [online]. Volume number (Issue number in brackets), pp. e12356. Available from: URL [Accessed date].

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