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

Nosengo N. The quota conundrum. Nature 2003; 426: 211.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang T, Overgaard J. Ecology. The heartbreak of adapting to global warming. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2007; 315: 49–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hannon JB, Tersoff J, Tromp RM. Surface stress and thermodynamic nanoscale size selection. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2002; 295: 299–301.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Debnath S, Yallowitz AR, McCormick J et al. Discovery of a periosteal stem cell mediating intramembranous bone formation. Nature 2018; 562: 133–139.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sundar V. Ocean Wave Mechanics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK: 2015.

An edited book

Ågotnes T, Broersen J, Elgesem D, editors. Deontic Logic in Computer Science: 11th International Conference, DEON 2012, Bergen, Norway, July 16-18, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg: 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Grilo I, Thurik AR. Entrepreneurship in the Old and New Europe. In: Santarelli E, ed. Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Innovation: The Dynamics of Firms and Industries. Springer US, Boston, MA: 2006; 75–103

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

O`Callaghan J. Scientists Shouldn’t Be Too Scared Of The Public When Discussing Climate Change [Internet]. IFLScience2017; [cited 2018 Oct 30] Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientsits-shouldnt-be-too-scared-of-the-public-when-discussing-climate-change/

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. Reasons for Funding Selected Entitlements Programs by Other Than 1-Year Appropriations. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC: 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nakayama M. Educational Advocacy for Children in Foster Care: A Grant Proposal. 2017;

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

Brantley B. Activists Haunted by Their K.G.B. Ordeal. New York Times2017; : C5.

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

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