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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). 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

Barber RT: Oceans. Picoplankton do some heavy lifting. Science 315: 777–778, 2007

A journal article with 2 authors

Simonson AB, Lake JA: The transorientation hypothesis for codon recognition during protein synthesis. Nature 416: 281–285, 2002

A journal article with 3 authors

Häkkinen S, Rhines PB, Worthen DL: Atmospheric blocking and Atlantic multidecadal ocean variability. Science 334: 655–659, 2011

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hanna J, Saha K, Pando B, van Zon J, Lengner CJ, Creyghton MP, van Oudenaarden A, Jaenisch R: Direct cell reprogramming is a stochastic process amenable to acceleration. Nature 462: 595–601, 2009

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Groves E: The Constant Contact Guide to Email Marketing. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ito J, editor: Regenerative Medicine in Otolaryngology. Tokyo, Springer Japan

A chapter in an edited book

Vordermeier M, Jones GJ, Sampson S, Gordon SV: Post-genomic Antigen Discovery: Bioinformatical Approaches to Reveal Novel T Cell Antigens of Mycobacterium bovis. In: Immunomic Discovery of Adjuvants and Candidate Subunit Vaccines, edited by Flower DR, Perrie Y, pp 73–90, 2013

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 Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Blog post

Andrew D: Ayahuasca, A Cautionary Tale For Tourists Eager To Try This Shamanic Brew [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ayahuasca-a-cautionary-tale-for-tourists-eager-to-try-this-shamanic-brew/ [cited 2018 Oct 30]

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: Federal Research: Small Business Innovation Research Program Shows Success But Can Be Strengthened. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Burke DM: Enhancing the patient safety culture of ABSN students through instruction on medical error recovery. 2014

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

Crow K: If You Can’t Stand the Name, Get Out of Hell’s Kitchen. New York Times. 144, 2002

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
ISSN (print)	1555-9041
ISSN (online)	1555-905X
Scope