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

Cane, D. E. Biochemistry: favouring the unfavoured. Nature 483, 285–286 (2012).

A journal article with 2 authors

Garrott, R. A. & Oli, M. K. Conservation. A critical crossroad for BLM’s wild horse program. Science 341, 847–848 (2013).

A journal article with 3 authors

Sasaki, T., Yamamoto, Y. & Koashi, M. Practical quantum key distribution protocol without monitoring signal disturbance. Nature 509, 475–478 (2014).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Nath, U., Crawford, B. C. W., Carpenter, R. & Coen, E. Genetic control of surface curvature. Science 299, 1404–1407 (2003).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bajorski, P. Statistics for Imaging, Optics, and Photonics: Bajorski/Statistics for Imaging. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011).

An edited book

Three-dimensional Echocardiography. (Springer, 2011).

A chapter in an edited book

Adams, A. E. Relocating the Contributions to Ethnography and Public Anthropology of Antonio Goubaud Carrera (1902–1951), Guatemala’s First Official Indigenist. in Ethnographic Collaborations in Latin America: The Effects of Globalization (eds. Nash, J. C. & Buechler, H. C.) 67–88 (Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016).

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

Andrew, E. Deformed Pig With “Penis Face” Draws Attention in China. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/deformed-pig-penis-face-draws-attention-china/ (2015).

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. Financial Management Systems: DHS Faces Challenges to Successfully Consolidating Its Existing Disparate Systems. (2009).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Boukes, J. An exploration of online spam prevention through geolocational filters. (California State University, Long Beach, 2012).

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

Kishkovsky, S. Modern Dance and Art Bring a Burst of Color to a Gray City. New York Times A8 (2009).

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