How to format your references using the Nephron citation style

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

Zubelewicz A. Liquid-liquid-solid transition in viscoelastic liquids. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1323.

A journal article with 2 authors

Starace DM, Bezanilla F. A proton pore in a potassium channel voltage sensor reveals a focused electric field. Nature. 2004 Feb;427(6974):548–53.

A journal article with 3 authors

Titus TN, Kieffer HH, Christensen PR. Exposed water ice discovered near the south pole of Mars. Science. 2003 Feb;299(5609):1048–51.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sinclair D, Fillman SG, Webster MJ, Weickert CS. Dysregulation of glucocorticoid receptor co-factors FKBP5, BAG1 and PTGES3 in prefrontal cortex in psychotic illness. Sci Rep. 2013 Dec;3:3539.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kim H-G, Moreau N, Sikora T. MPEG-7 Audio and Beyond. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Suárez JC, Garrido R, Balona LA, Christensen-Dalsgaard J, editors. Stellar Pulsations: Impact of New Instrumentation and New Insights. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Corezola Pereira R, Moreira VP, Galante R. A New Approach for Cross-Language Plagiarism Analysis. In: Agosti M, Ferro N, Peters C, Rijke M de, Smeaton A, editors. Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation: International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2010, Padua, Italy, September 20-23, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010; pp 15–26.

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 Nephron.

Blog post

Luntz S. Conflicting Findings On The Survival Of The Greenland Ice Sheet [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Dec [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/conflicting-findings-on-the-survival-of-the-greenland-ice-sheet/

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. Household Goods Transport. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ayres R. Optimization of a Novel Oxy-Michael Ugi-Smiles Reaction. 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

Cheever S. ‘Why Didn’t Rebecca Stop at the Railroad Crossing?’ New York Times. 2014 Jun;MM46.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Nephron
ISSN (print)	1660-8151
ISSN (online)	2235-3186
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