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. Samarasekera IV. Universities need a new social contract. Nature. 2009;462:160–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ortíz-Barrientos D, Noor MAF. Evidence for a one-allele assortative mating locus. Science. 2005;310:1467.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bandfield JL, Glotch TD, Christensen PR. Spectroscopic identification of carbonate minerals in the martian dust. Science. 2003;301:1084–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lard M, ten Siethoff L, Månsson A, Linke H. Tracking actomyosin at fluorescence check points. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1092.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Calvello AA. Environmental Alpha. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. Wadkar S. Pro Apache Hadoop. Second Edition. Siddalingaiah M, editor. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sigl G. Interdisciplinary Aspects of High-Energy Astrophysics. In: Lasota J-P, editor. Astronomy at the Frontiers of Science. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011. p. 69–85.

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. Andrew E. Windowless Planes Offer Passengers Spectacular Panoramic Views [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/windowless-planes-offer-passengers-spectacular-panoramic-views/

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. Electronic Disability Claims Processing: SSA Needs to Address Risks Associated with Its Accelerated Systems Development Strategy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Mar. Report No.: GAO-04-466.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Miramontes AJ. Examining eye fixation patterns during the Situation Present Assessment Method (SPAM) under varying levels of workload [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Insanity Most Genteel. New York Times. 2016 Oct 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