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

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

Pollitz FF (2006) Geophysics. A new class of earthquake observations. Science 313:619–620

A journal article with 2 authors

McLaughlin S, Murray D (2005) Plasma membrane phosphoinositide organization by protein electrostatics. Nature 438:605–611

A journal article with 3 authors

Tilmes S, Müller R, Salawitch R (2008) The sensitivity of polar ozone depletion to proposed geoengineering schemes. Science 320:1201–1204

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wu M, Zhao D, Zhong W, et al (2013) High-density distributed electrode network, a multi-functional electroporation method for delivery of molecules of different sizes. Sci Rep 3:3370

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Becker K, Rautenstrauch K (2012) Ingenieurholzbau nach Eurocode 5: Konstruktion, Berechnung, Ausführung. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Schomburg D, Schomburg I, Chang A (2007) Class 2 • Transferases IX: EC 2.7.1.38–2.7.1.112, Second Edition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Ramasubramanian K, Sriram MS (2011) Solar eclipse. In: Sriram MS (ed) Tantrasaṅgraha of Nīlakaṇṭha Somayājī. Springer, London, pp 305–356

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 Journal of Nephrology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) New Evidence Suggests There Are More Dwarf Planets In Our Solar System. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1995) Federal Research: Lessons Learned from the Pilot Technology Access Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yudell M (2008) Making race: Biology and the evolution of the race concept in 20th century American thought. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University

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

Hodara S (2014) Exploring the Continuity of the Radical. New York Times WE9

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	Journal of Nephrology
Abbreviation	J. Nephrol.
ISSN (print)	1121-8428
ISSN (online)	1724-6059
Scope	Nephrology