How to format your references using the 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 Journal of the American Society 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

Porto JV: Physics. Improving correlations despite particle loss. Science 320: 1300–1301, 2008

A journal article with 2 authors

Jin H-J, Weissmüller J: A material with electrically tunable strength and flow stress. Science 332: 1179–1182, 2011

A journal article with 3 authors

Westfall PJ, Ballon DR, Thorner J: When the stress of your environment makes you go HOG wild. Science 306: 1511–1512, 2004

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sabari BR, Dall’Agnese A, Boija A, Klein IA, Coffey EL, Shrinivas K, et al.: Coactivator condensation at super-enhancers links phase separation and gene control. Science 361: 2018

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Neupert R: French Animation History. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell;

An edited book

Jha GN, editor: Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: 4th International Symposium, New Delhi, India, December 10-12, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer;

A chapter in an edited book

Mongini C: Morphogenesis Under Construction: Tracing the Process of Individuation Along Physico-Aesthetic Coordinates. In: Morphogenesis and Individuation, edited by Sarti A, Montanari F, Galofaro F, pp 75–89, 2015

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 the American Society of Nephrology.

Blog post

Andrew E: NASA Creates Wi-Fi Chip That Could Save Battery On Your Smart Tech [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/nasa-creates-wi-fi-chip-could-save-battery-your-smart-tech/ [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: Intellectual Property: Patent Examination and Copyright Office Issues. 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

Moss KA: The Development and Diffusion of the Cult of Isis in the Hellenistic Period. 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

Yablonsky L: Logos à Go-Go. New York Times. ST3, 2011

In-text citations

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

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 the American Society of Nephrology
Abbreviation	J. Am. Soc. Nephrol.
ISSN (print)	1046-6673
ISSN (online)	1533-3450
Scope	General Medicine Nephrology