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

Wynne CDL. The perils of anthropomorphism. Nature. 2004 Apr 8;428(6983):606.

A journal article with 2 authors

Codelli JA, Reisman SE. Chemistry. Pactamycin made easy. Science. 2013 Apr 12;340(6129):152–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nagashima K, Krot AN, Yurimoto H. Stardust silicates from primitive meteorites. Nature. 2004 Apr 29;428(6986):921–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yan XY, Han XP, Wang BH, Zhou T. Diversity of individual mobility patterns and emergence of aggregated scaling laws. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2678.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Senez V, Thomy V, Dufour R. Nanotechnologies for Synthetic Super Non-Wetting Surfaces. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Gu DW. Robust Control Design with MATLAB®. 2nd ed. 2013. Petkov PH, Konstantinov MM, editors. London: Springer; 2013. XXI, 468 p. 367 illus., 113 illus. in color. (Advanced Textbooks in Control and Signal Processing).

A chapter in an edited book

Komatsu T. Geomorphic Features of the Eastern Pamirs, with a Focus on the Occurrence of Intermontane Basins. In: Kreutzmann H, Watanabe T, editors. Mapping Transition in the Pamirs: Changing Human-Environmental Landscapes. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 55–68. (Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research).

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

Fang J. Venus Express Prepares for its Summer Plunge. 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. Helium Program: Key Developments Since the Early 1990s and Future Considerations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010 May. Report No.: GAO-10-700T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Oparnica D. The role of nurses in health care reform: A project report [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Vecsey G. For the Cardinals, a Classic Finish. New York Times. 2011 Oct 29;D4.

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