How to format your references using the Kidney Research and Clinical Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Kidney Research and Clinical Practice (KRCP). 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	Download the output style file
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]

Reedijk J: Chemistry. Dioxygen surprises. Science 308(5730):1876–7, 2005

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Jiang YC:, Gao J: Strain-induced photoconductivity in thin films of Co doped amorphous carbon. Sci Rep 4:6738, 2014

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

O’Riordan M:, Moors MA:, Portnoy DA: Listeria intracellular growth and virulence require host-derived lipoic acid. Science 302(5644):462–4, 2003

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Stone JO:, Balco GA:, Sugden DE:, Caffee MW:, Sass LC 3rd:, Cowdery SG:, Siddoway C: Holocene deglaciation of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica. Science 299(5603):99–102, 2003

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Abran A: Software Project Estimation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc

An edited book

[1]

Guinaldo Losada M:, Rodríguez Rubio F:, Dormido Bencomo S: Asynchronous Control for Networked Systems. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jin X: Legal Theoretical Analysis on the Market Economy Mode of China—Discussing from the Status of Market Economy in Anti-dumpling. In: Zhou M, editor. Advances in Education and Management: International Symposium, ISAEBD 2011, Dalian, China, August 6-7, 2011, Proceedings, Part IV, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 34–40, 2011

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 Research and Clinical Practice.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J: A Cargo Spacecraft Has Been Doing Some Pretty Cool Things In Orbit. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/cygnus-spacecraft-orbital-experiment/ [Date accessed: October 30, 2018]

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: Regulatory Burden. 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

[1]

O’Neil DM: Climate frequencies of the early Holocene from Foy Lake, Montana. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2013

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]

Shear MD: An Unusual Place for a President’s Family on a Foreign Trip: Center Stage. New York Times:A6, 2017

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 Research and Clinical Practice
Abbreviation	Kidney Res. Clin. Pract.
ISSN (print)	2211-9132
ISSN (online)	2211-9140
Scope	Nephrology Urology