How to format your references using the Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Aspinall W. Check your legal position before advising others. Nature. 2011;477:251.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Zhang K, Rathod PK. Divergent regulation of dihydrofolate reductase between malaria parasite and human host. Science. 2002;296:545–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bréon F-M, Tanré D, Generoso S. Aerosol effect on cloud droplet size monitored from satellite. Science. 2002;295:834–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Mistlberger RE, Yamazaki S, Pendergast JS, Landry GJ, Takumi T, Nakamura W. Comment on “Differential rescue of light- and food-entrainable circadian rhythms.” Science. 2008;322:675; author reply 675.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Shanmugam R, Chattamvelli R. Statistics for Scientists and Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Ceri S. Web Information Retrieval. Bozzon A, Brambilla M, Della Valle E, Fraternali P, Quarteroni S, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ito U, Hakamata Y, Watabe K, Oyanagi K. Astrocytic Involvement in the Maturation Phenomenon After Temporary Cerebral Ischemia. In: Katayama Y, Maeda T, Kuroiwa T, editors. Brain Edema XV. Vienna: Springer; 2013. p. 23–9.

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 Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Chernobyl Fox Makes A Bacon Sandwich [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chernobyl-fox-invents-bacon-sandwich/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Tribal Internet Access: Increased Federal Coordination and Performance Measurement Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Apr. Report No.: GAO-16-504T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. DeHart WP. The leader liminal sphere: A phenomenological inquiry [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2008.

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

1. Brantley B. Serving Ham on Soignée Silk. New York Times. 2017 Apr 6;C1.

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	Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease
Abbreviation	Can. J. Kidney Health Dis.
ISSN (online)	2054-3581
Scope