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]

Offringa R: Cancer. Cancer immunotherapy is more than a numbers game. Science 314(5796):68–9, 2006

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Martin TJ:, Mundy GR: Bone metastasis: can osteoclasts be excluded? Nature 445(7130):E19; discussion E19-20, 2007

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pluth MD:, Bergman RG:, Raymond KN: Acid catalysis in basic solution: a supramolecular host promotes orthoformate hydrolysis. Science 316(5821):85–8, 2007

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Burns KH:, Viveiros MM:, Ren Y:, Wang P:, DeMayo FJ:, Frail DE:, Eppig JJ:, Matzuk MM: Roles of NPM2 in chromatin and nucleolar organization in oocytes and embryos. Science 300(5619):633–6, 2003

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wolf EL:, Medikonda M: Understanding the Nanotechnology Revolution. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA

An edited book

[1]

Agresti A:, Meng X-L: Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S. New York, NY: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Thakker D:, Dimitrova V:, Lau L:, Yang-Turner F:, Despotakis D: Making Sense of Linked Data: A Semantic Exploration Approach. In: Karacapilidis N, editor. Mastering Data-Intensive Collaboration and Decision Making: Research and practical applications in the Dicode project, Cham: Springer International Publishing, 71–87, 2014

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]

Andrew E: New Drugs Could Reverse Multiple Sclerosis Nerve Damage. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-drugs-may-show-promise-reversing-multiple-sclerosis-damage/ [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: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Temporary Emergency Impact Aid Provided Education Support for Displaced Students. 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]

Hayes MG: A qualitative case study of cultural competency among Advanced Placement teachers in Florida. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 2010

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]

Klein JZ:, Pilon M: Long Goodbye: Contracts That Keep On Giving. New York Times:B9, 2013

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