How to format your references using the Clinical Kidney Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Kidney Journal. 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

Nagaosa N. Physics. A new state of quantum matter. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2007; 318: 758–759.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hofmann HA, Stevenson PA. Flight restores fight in crickets. Nature 2000; 403: 613.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang Y, Kirmizialtin S, Sanchez IC. Dynamic void distribution in myoglobin and five mutants. Scientific reports 2014; 4: 4011.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Lim J, Lee H-G, Lee S, Park C-Y, Ahn J. Ultrafast Ramsey interferometry to implement cold atomic qubit gates. Scientific reports 2014; 4: 5867.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Isobe K, Watanabe W, Itoh K. Functional Imaging by Controlled Nonlinear Optical Phenomena. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ: 2013.

An edited book

Hofmann E. Performance Measurement and Incentive Systems in Purchasing: More Than Just Savings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg: 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Huang Y, Tan T. Experimental Study of Feature Coding. In: Tan T, ed. Feature Coding for Image Representation and Recognition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg: 2014; 37–45

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 Kidney Journal.

Blog post

Taub B. Breathing Through The Nose Can Enhance Your Memory Recall And Emotional Processing [Internet]. IFLScience2016; [cited 2018 Oct 30] Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/breathing-through-nose-can-enhance-memory-recall-emotional-processing/

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. Social Security Numbers: More Could be Done to Protect SSNs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC: 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sparks GA. Charismatic leadership: An exploratory investigation of the techniques of influence. 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

Robbins L. Chemistry Lab Fire Injures 2 At a Manhattan High School. New York Times2014; : A16.

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 Kidney Journal
ISSN (print)	2048-8505
ISSN (online)	2048-8513
Scope