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

LeBlanc LJ. Quantum physics: Two-atom bunching. Nature. 2015 Apr;520(7545):36–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pahnke K, Zahn R. Southern Hemisphere water mass conversion linked with North Atlantic climate variability. Science. 2005 Mar;307(5716):1741–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moritz CT, Perlmutter SI, Fetz EE. Direct control of paralysed muscles by cortical neurons. Nature. 2008 Dec;456(7222):639–42.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hilder TA, Ridone P, Nakayama Y, Martinac B, Chung S-H. Binding of fullerenes and nanotubes to MscL. Sci Rep. 2014 Jul;4:5609.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bauer E. Design for Reliability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Faa G, Fanos V, editors. Kidney Development in Renal Pathology. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Wong KCL, Summers R, Kebebew E, Yao J. Tumor Growth Prediction with Hyperelastic Biomechanical Model, Physiological Data Fusion, and Nonlinear Optimization. In: Golland P, Hata N, Barillot C, Hornegger J, Howe R, editors. Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2014: 17th International Conference, Boston, MA, USA, September 14-18, 2014, Proceedings, Part II. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014; pp 25–32.

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

Carpineti C. This Awesome Little 3D-Printed Robot Could One Day Help With Search And Rescue [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 May

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. Federal Railroad Administration: Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing Program--Revisions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Blackwell PK. Timbre Fantasy: An Analysis on Coloristic Choices in John Corigliano’s Etude Fantasy. 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

Vecsey G. Lost Notes Will Linger as Footsteps Fall. New York Times. 2010 Nov;B17.

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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