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

Moore P (2005) Simplifying the probe set. Nature 435:238

A journal article with 2 authors

Ito T, Handa H (2015) Myeloid disease: Another action of a thalidomide derivative. Nature 523:167–168

A journal article with 3 authors

Bishop JR, Schuksz M, Esko JD (2007) Heparan sulphate proteoglycans fine-tune mammalian physiology. Nature 446:1030–1037

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Stavrou E, Ahart M, Mahmood MF, Goncharov AF (2013) Probing the different spatial scales of Kel F-800 polymeric glass under pressure. Sci Rep 3:1290

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zink M (2005) Scalable Video on Demand. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., West Sussex, England

An edited book

Raposio E (2016) Atlas of Endoscopic Plastic Surgery, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Hu Z, Shi Z (2008) Investigation of Animal Reservoir(s) of SARS-CoV. In: Lu Y, Essex M, Roberts B (eds) Emerging Infections in Asia. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 57–73

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) Newly Discovered 17th Century Document Described Now-Extinct Mauritian Wildlife. 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 (1991) Transportation Infrastructure: Issues for Congressional Consideration During Reauthorization of Surface Transportation Programs. 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

Slayton KA (2013) A psychoeducational support group for families of youth experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Shear MD (2017) In Former F.B.I. Director, Investigation Gains a Leader Known for Independence. New York Times A14

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

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