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

Ford JM. In the days of the comet. Nature. 2000 Jun;405(6789):889.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shiroguchi K, Kinosita K Jr. Myosin V walks by lever action and Brownian motion. Science. 2007 May;316(5828):1208–12.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sang L, Coller HA, Roberts JM. Control of the reversibility of cellular quiescence by the transcriptional repressor HES1. Science. 2008 Aug;321(5892):1095–100.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Belonoshko AB, Skorodumova NV, Rosengren A, Johansson B. Elastic anisotropy of Earth’s inner core. Science. 2008 Feb;319(5864):797–800.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Conklin AR Jr. Introduction to Soil Chemistry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Nadamoto A, Jatowt A, Wierzbicki A, Leidner JL, editors. Social Informatics: SocInfo 2013 International Workshops, QMC and HISTOINFORMATICS, Kyoto, Japan, November 25, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Lewis M, Souki F. The Anesthetic Implications of Opioid Addiction. In: Bryson EO, Frost EAM, editors. Perioperative Addiction: Clinical Management of the Addicted Patient. New York, NY: Springer; 2012; pp 73–93.

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

Taub B. Ketamine Metabolite Reduces Depression Without Any “Druggy” Side-Effects [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 May [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/ketamine-metabolite-reduces-depression-without-any-druggy-side-effects/

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. Space Acquisitions: DOD Is Overcoming Long-Standing Problems, but Faces Challenges to Ensuring Its Investments Are Optimized. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fails JA. Mobile collaboration for young children: Reading and creating stories. 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

Harris EA, Moynihan C. Brooklyn Teacher Is Accused of Abusing Girls for 3 Years. New York Times. 2014 Oct;A1.

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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