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. Perk J. Perspective: The power of disease prevention. Nature. 2013;493:S6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gagliardi L, Roos BO. Quantum chemical calculations show that the uranium molecule U2 has a quintuple bond. Nature. 2005;433:848–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lawrence T, Hageman T, Balkwill F. Cancer. Sex, cytokines, and cancer. Science. 2007;317:51–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yamane Y, Hemmatiyan S, Ieda J, Maekawa S, Sinova J. Spinmotive force due to motion of magnetic bubble arrays driven by magnetic field gradient. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6901.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lindahl D. Multi-Family Millions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

1. Fdida S, Sugiura K, editors. Sustainable Internet: Third Asian Internet Engineering Conference, AINTEC 2007, Phuket, Thailand, November 27-29, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Vera J, Lai X, Schmitz U, Wolkenhauer O. MicroRNA-Regulated Networks: The Perfect Storm for Classical Molecular Biology, the Ideal Scenario for Systems Biology. In: Schmitz U, Wolkenhauer O, Vera J, editors. MicroRNA Cancer Regulation: Advanced Concepts, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Tools. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 55–76.

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. The Amazon Rainforest Is Dominated By Domesticated Trees [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-amazon-rainforest-is-dominated-by-domesticated-trees/

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. Rail Safety: The Federal Railroad Administration Is Taking Steps to Better Target Its Oversight, but Assessment of Results Is Needed to Determine Impact. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Jan. Report No.: GAO-07-149.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lenz RM. Iron, Arsenic, and Elevated Salinity in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Aquifer of Louisiana [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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. Feeney K. No-Frills Cuban Fare, and Cheer. New York Times. 2006 Dec 3;NJ6.

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

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