How to format your references using the American Journal of Nephrology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Nephrology. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Hoag H. Chemists’ salaries turn south. Nature. 2003 Apr;422(6933):650.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wain-Hobson S, Weiss RA. If free speech costs lives that’s a high price to pay. Nature. 2000 Oct;407(6806):834.

A journal article with 3 authors

Allanore A, Yin L, Sadoway DR. A new anode material for oxygen evolution in molten oxide electrolysis. Nature. 2013 May;497(7449):353–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ramanathan V, Crutzen PJ, Kiehl JT, Rosenfeld D. Aerosols, climate, and the hydrological cycle. Science. 2001 Dec;294(5549):2119–24.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Johnson JL. Probability and Statistics for Computer Science. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1997.

An edited book

Astuto M, Ingelmo PM, editors. Perioperative Medicine in Pediatric Anesthesia. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Roberts AR, Yeager KR. Indicatori della predisposizione alla crisi da parte di una persona. In: Yeager KR, editor. Gli interventi sulla crisi: Una guida pratica. Milano: Springer; 2012; pp 11–11.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for American Journal of Nephrology.

Blog post

Luntz S. Yes, Wearing A Bike Helmet Really Does Reduce Your Risk Of Injury [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Sep [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/yes-wearing-a-bike-helmet-really-does-reduce-your-risk-of-injury/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. Air Traffic Control: Ineffective Management Plagues $1.7-Billion Radar Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Satterlee RT. A case study of undergraduate student employment at a private university: Exploring the effects of social class and institutional context. 2009

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Vecsey G. Coaches Come and Go, Except JoePa. New York Times. 2010 Jan;B11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	American Journal of Nephrology
Abbreviation	Am. J. Nephrol.
ISSN (print)	0250-8095
ISSN (online)	1421-9670
Scope	Nephrology