How to format your references using the Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation citation style

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

Bussières P. Estimating the number and size of phloem sieve plate pores using longitudinal views and geometric reconstruction. Scientific reports 2014; 4: 4929.

A journal article with 2 authors

Coulson T, Clegg S. Population biology: fur seals signal their own decline. Nature 2014; 511: 414–415.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ilonidis S, Zhao J, Kosovichev A. Detection of emerging sunspot regions in the solar interior. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2011; 333: 993–996.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Racki LR, Yang JG, Naber N et al. The chromatin remodeller ACF acts as a dimeric motor to space nucleosomes. Nature 2009; 462: 1016–1021.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adámek J. Foundations of Coding. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ: 1991.

An edited book

Davenport J, Burnell GM, Cross T et al., editors. Challenges to Marine Ecosystems: Proceedings of the 41st European Marine Biology Symposium. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht: 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Banerjee S, Moses ME. A Hybrid Agent Based and Differential Equation Model of Body Size Effects on Pathogen Replication and Immune System Response. In: Andrews PS, Timmis J, Owens NDL, Aickelin U, Hart E, Hone A, Tyrrell AM, eds. Artificial Immune Systems: 8th International Conference, ICARIS 2009, York, UK, August 9-12, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg: 2009; 14–18

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 Dialysis Transplantation.

Blog post

Andrew E. Windowless Planes Offer Passengers Spectacular Panoramic Views [Internet]. IFLScience2014; [cited 2018 Oct 30] Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/windowless-planes-offer-passengers-spectacular-panoramic-views/

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. Bankruptcy Reform: Value of Credit Counseling Requirement Is Not Clear. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC: 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Aquino-Centeno S. Contesting social memories and identities in the Zapotec Sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico. 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

Eddy M, Kishkovsky S. Bolshoi Director Is Upbeat About His Recovery. New York Times2013; : C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Dialysis Transplantation
Abbreviation	Nephrol. Dial. Transplant
ISSN (print)	0931-0509
ISSN (online)	1460-2385
Scope	Nephrology Transplantation