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

Schmelcher, P. Chemistry. Molecule formation in ultrahigh magnetic fields. Science 337, 302–303 (2012).

A journal article with 2 authors

Wen, L. & Tang, F. Computational biology: How to catch rare cell types. Nature 525, 197–198 (2015).

A journal article with 3 authors

Babaev, E., Sudbø, A. & Ashcroft, N. W. A superconductor to superfluid phase transition in liquid metallic hydrogen. Nature 431, 666–668 (2004).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Becker, M. A. et al. Bright triplet excitons in caesium lead halide perovskites. Nature 553, 189–193 (2018).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El-Reedy, M. A. Project Management in the Oil and Gas Industry. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016).

An edited book

Intelligent Environments: Methods, Algorithms and Applications. (Springer, 2009).

A chapter in an edited book

Borghese, F., Denti, P. & Saija, R. Transition Matrix of Single and Aggregated Spheres. in Scattering from Model Nonspherical Particles: Theory and Applications to Environmental Physics (eds. Denti, P. & Saija, R.) 109–134 (Springer, 2007).

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, D. Meet The Biohackers Letting Technology Get Under Their Skin. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/technology/meet-the-biohackers-letting-technology-get-under-their-skin/ (2016).

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. Federal Research: Interim Report on the Small Business Innovation Research Program. (1995).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mann, H. M. Testing for differentially functioning indicators using mixtures of confirmatory factor analysis models. (University of Maryland, College Park, 2009).

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

Yeh, J. Little Moments. New York Times BR44 (2016).

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

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