How to format your references using the Kidney International Supplements citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Kidney International Supplements. 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. Zaanen J. High-temperature superconductivity. Stripes defeat the Fermi liquid. Nature 2000; 404: 714–715.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kellner AWA, Campos D de A. The function of the cranial crest and jaws of a unique pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil. Science 2002; 297: 389–392.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Cohen S, Zhou Z, Greenberg ME. Medicine. Activating a repressor. Science 2008; 320: 1172–1173.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Jones JA, Karlen SD, Fitzsimons J et al. Magnetic field sensing beyond the standard quantum limit using 10-spin NOON states. Science 2009; 324: 1166–1168.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Graham C. Markov Chains: Analytic and Monte Carlo Computations. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Chirikjian GS, Choset H, Morales M et al. eds. Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics VIII: Selected Contributions of the Eight International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Backes G, Orabi J, Fischbeck G et al. Barley. In: Kole C, ed. Cereals and Millets. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006, pp.155–210.

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 International Supplements.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Scientists Use Snail Genomics To Fight Deadly Parasitic Disease. IFLScience 2017.

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. Schools and Libraries Program: Application and Invoice Review Procedures Need Strengthening. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Araki PR. Golden Years Home Residential Care Facility for the Elderly. 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. Williams J. If It Ain’t Broke. New York Times. September 18, 2016:BR6.

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	Kidney International Supplements
Abbreviation	Kidney Int. Suppl. (2011)
ISSN (print)	2157-1724
ISSN (online)	2157-1716
Scope	Nephrology