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]

Raymond J: Sexist attitudes: Most of us are biased. Nature 495(7439):33–4, 2013

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dufour SC:, Felbeck H: Sulphide mining by the superextensile foot of symbiotic thyasirid bivalves. Nature 426(6962):65–7, 2003

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Merilä J:, Kruuk LE:, Sheldon BC: Cryptic evolution in a wild bird population. Nature 412(6842):76–9, 2001

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Carter AP:, Garbarino JE:, Wilson-Kubalek EM:, Shipley WE:, Cho C:, Milligan RA:, Vale RD:, Gibbons IR: Structure and functional role of dynein’s microtubule-binding domain. Science 322(5908):1691–5, 2008

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Henden J: Beating Combat Stress. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

[1]

Baz IA:, Otterpohl R:, Wendland C: Efficient Management of Wastewater: Its Treatment and Reuse in Water-Scarce Countries. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ferrario D: Il cinema secondo Fibonacci. In: Emmer M, editor. Matematica e Cultura 2006, Milano: Springer, 15–20, 2006

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]

Luntz S: Hubble Spots Lonely Galaxy Lost In Space. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/closest-lonely-galaxy-lost-space/ [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: HHS ADP Procurement: Contracting and Market Share Information. 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]

Hong HJ: Acrolein Modification of Human Apolipoprotein A-I Impairs Binding to Phosphatidylglycerol and Lipopolysaccharide of Gram-Negative Bacteria. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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]

Zimmerman E: No Country For Old Men. New York Times:MM30, 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