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

McCammon C: Geochemistry. The paradox of mantle redox. Science 308: 807–808, 2005

A journal article with 2 authors

Jacak BV, Müller B: The exploration of hot nuclear matter. Science 337: 310–314, 2012

A journal article with 3 authors

Alston JM, Beddow JM, Pardey PG: Agriculture. Agricultural research, productivity, and food prices in the long run. Science 325: 1209–1210, 2009

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yoon B, Häkkinen H, Landman U, Wörz AS, Antonietti J-M, Abbet S, et al.: Charging effects on bonding and catalyzed oxidation of CO on Au8 clusters on MgO. Science 307: 403–407, 2005

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hartley J: Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell;

An edited book

Cossentino M, Hilaire V, Molesini A, Seidita V, editors: Handbook on Agent-Oriented Design Processes. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer;

A chapter in an edited book

Furnell SM: Security Education: The Challenge beyond the Classroom. In: Information Assurance and Security Education and Training: 8th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference on Information Security Education, WISE 8, Auckland, New Zealand, July 8-10, 2013, Proceedings, WISE 7, Lucerne Switzerland, June 9-10, 2011, and WISE 6, Bento Gonçalves, RS, Brazil, July 27-31, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, edited by Dodge RC, Futcher L, pp 32–38, 2013

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

Carpineti A: New Treatment Shown To Dramatically Boost Survival Rates In Prostate Cancer Patients [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-treatment-shown-to-slow-the-advances-of-prostate-cancer/ [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: NASA: Assessments of Selected Large-Scale 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

Colker JO: A grounded theory approach to developing a theory of leadership through a case study of ShoreBank. 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

Risen J: Trump Can Target Journalists, Thanks to Obama. New York Times. SR3, 2016

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

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