How to format your references using the Kidney Disease and Transplantation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Kidney Disease and Transplantation. 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

1. Budd PM. Chemistry. Putting order into polymer networks. Science. 2007;316:210–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Joughin I, Tulaczyk S. Positive mass balance of the Ross Ice Streams, West Antarctica. Science. 2002;295:476–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Piovia-Scott J, Spiller DA, Schoener TW. Effects of experimental seaweed deposition on lizard and ant predation in an island food web. Science. 2011;331:461–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Coburn PS, Pillar CM, Jett BD, Haas W, Gilmore MS. Enterococcus faecalis senses target cells and in response expresses cytolysin. Science. 2004;306:2270–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Gaffney S, Francis C. Honesty Sells. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. Björn LO, editor. Photobiology: The Science of Life and Light. Second Edition. New York, NY: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Farrugia K, Caramona M. Transitional Care: Caring Across the Interface. In: Grech L, Lau A, editors. Pharmaceutical Care Issues of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: From Hospital to Community. Singapore: Springer; 2016. p. 71–8.

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 Kidney Disease and Transplantation.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. The Global Economy Grew Last Year Without a Rise In CO2 Emissions [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/global-economy-grew-last-year-without-rise-co2-emissions/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Screening Partnership Program: TSA Should Issue More Guidance to Airports and Monitor Private versus Federal Screener Performance. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Dec. Report No.: GAO-13-208.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Waldron KD. The Influence of Leadership Emotional Intelligence on Employee Engagement [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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

1. McKINLEY JC Jr, Rojas R. An Impostor’s Lives and Lies. New York Times. 2016 Feb 7;MB1.

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	Kidney Disease and Transplantation
ISSN (online)	2058-511X
Scope