How to format your references using the Nature Reviews Nephrology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nature Reviews Nephrology. 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

Schilling, G. ASTRONOMY: Watch This Space! Science 289, 238b (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

Starace, D. M. & Bezanilla, F. A proton pore in a potassium channel voltage sensor reveals a focused electric field. Nature 427, 548–553 (2004).

A journal article with 3 authors

Angell, S. Y., Danel, I. & DeCock, K. M. Global health. Global indicators and targets for noncommunicable diseases. Science 337, 1456–1457 (2012).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Pramanik, S., Pingguan-Murphy, B., Cho, J. & Abu Osman, N. A. Design and development of potential tissue engineering scaffolds from structurally different longitudinal parts of a bovine-femur. Sci. Rep. 4, 5843 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Källén, A. Understanding Biostatistics. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2011).

An edited book

Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems: 16th International Symposium, SSS 2014, Paderborn, Germany, September 28 – October 1, 2014. Proceedings. vol. 8756 (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014).

A chapter in an edited book

Mignault, F. Globalization. in Expert Oracle Application Express (eds. Kennedy, S. et al.) 241–269 (Apress, Berkeley, CA, 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 Nature Reviews Nephrology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. White Bread Is Healthier For Some People Than Whole Grain. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/white-bread-is-healthier-for-some-people-than-whole-grain/ (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

Government Accountability Office. Student Attrition at the Five Federal Service Academies - Enclosure C. (1976).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zolfaghari, S. S. The relationship between folic acid, vitamin B12, and vitamin B6 intakes and depression in women who use hormonal oral contraceptives. (California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2015).

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

Kinsley, M. Nagging NATO. New York Times SR2 (2017).

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	Nature Reviews Nephrology
Abbreviation	Nat. Rev. Nephrol.
ISSN (print)	1759-5061
ISSN (online)	1759-507X
Scope	Nephrology