title: [Accuracy of references in eight nursing journals in Korea].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study was to investigate the reference accuracy in major nursing journals in Korea.
  
  
  METHODS
  The references in articles from eight nursing journals from 2006 were compared with PubMed for authors, year, title, journal, volume, and page accuracy. Four hundred sixty-six references were reviewed. Errors were classified as major or minor and categorized by bibliographic headings (author, title, journal, year, volume and page).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 466 references, 223(47.9%) had citation errors. The reference error rates ranged from 28.6% to 58.7%. Most errors occurred in the author element (37.9%), followed by title (20.9%), journal (19.0%), page (13.9%), volume (5.9%), and year (2.4%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study identified a considerable error rate in the references of nursing journals. Inaccuracy of references is a reflection on scholarly work of authors and journals. Authors and Editorial committees are responsible for the accuracy of references.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Pochon CHA University, Sungnam, Korea.
authors.forename: Min-Hyun
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Suk
authors.forename: Hee-Jung
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Jang
authors.forename: Jeong Sook
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Hae-Won
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Yeon-Ok
authors.initials: YO
authors.lastname: Suh
authors.forename: Hyun-Sook
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.forename: Jin-Hyang
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Myun-Sook
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Myung-Sill
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Chung
mesh_terms: D001634:Bibliographies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D009729:Nursing; D017712:Peer Review, Research; D010506:Periodicals as Topic