How to format your references using the Nephrology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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	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

Binzel RP. Human spaceflight: Find asteroids to get to Mars. Nature. 2014 Oct 30;514(7524):559–61.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wong AMH, Eleftheriades GV. An optical super-microscope for far-field, real-time imaging beyond the diffraction limit. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1715.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vohs KD, Mead NL, Goode MR. The psychological consequences of money. Science. 2006 Nov 17;314(5802):1154–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hu J, Aguirre M, Peto C, Alonso J, Ecker J, Chory J. A role for peroxisomes in photomorphogenesis and development of Arabidopsis. Science. 2002 Jul 19;297(5580):405–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lovejoy DA. Neuroendocrinology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

White C, editor. The Materiality of Individuality: Archaeological Studies of Individual Lives. New York, NY: Springer US; 2009. VII, 227 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Crooks AT, Heppenstall AJ. Introduction to Agent-Based Modelling. In: Heppenstall AJ, Crooks AT, See LM, Batty M, editors. Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. p. 85–105.

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 Nephrology.

Blog post

Andrew E. New State Of Matter Discovered in Chicken Eyes. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Athletic Department Profiles. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 May. Report No.: HRD-93-24R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Watson WA. Middle school students’ experiences on a science museum field trip as Preparation for Future Learning [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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

Estrin J. Stanley Greene, Whose Camera Captured the Brutality of War, Dies at 68. New York Times. 2017 May 20;B7.

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	Nephrology
Abbreviation	Nephrology (Carlton)
ISSN (print)	1320-5358
ISSN (online)	1440-1797
Scope	General Medicine Nephrology