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

Hejnol A: Evolutionary biology: Excitation over jelly nerves. Nature 510: 38–39, 2014

A journal article with 2 authors

Brédas J-L, Silbey R: Chemistry. Excitons surf along conjugated polymer chains. Science 323: 348–349, 2009

A journal article with 3 authors

Lu LY, Ou N, Lu Q-B: Antioxidant induces DNA damage, cell death and mutagenicity in human lung and skin normal cells. Sci. Rep. 3: 3169, 2013

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Redman RS, Sheehan KB, Stout RG, Rodriguez RJ, Henson JM: Thermotolerance generated by plant/fungal symbiosis. Science 298: 1581, 2002

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Conrick C IV, Hanson S: Vertical Option Spreads. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.;

An edited book

O’Mathúna DP, Gordijn B, Clarke M, editors: Disaster Bioethics: Normative Issues When Nothing is Normal: Normative Issues When Nothing is Normal. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands;

A chapter in an edited book

Sundmacher R, Stammen J: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Diseases of the Anterior Segment. In: Color Atlas of Herpetic Eye Diseases: A Practical Guide to Clinical Management, edited by Sundmacher R, pp 159–162, 2009

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: You Could Have Your Very Own Jetpack by Late 2016 [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/you-could-have-your-very-own-jetpack-late-2016/ [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: Transportation Infrastructure: Impacts of Utility Relocations on Highway and Bridge Projects. 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

Stout J: The Effects of Discipline with African-American Males at an Alternative Middle School: The Perceptions of Parents/Guardians, Teachers, Administrators, and Other Academic Stakeholders. 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

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