How to format your references using the Nephron Clinical Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nephron Clinical Practice. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Hagmann M. PUBLIC HEALTH: Deaths Among Heroin Users Present a Puzzle. Science. 2000 Jun;288(5473):1941a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hachet O, Ephrussi A. Splicing of oskar RNA in the nucleus is coupled to its cytoplasmic localization. Nature. 2004 Apr;428(6986):959–63.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mei L, Chen Y, Ma J. Gas sensing of SnO2 nanocrystals revisited: developing ultra-sensitive sensors for detecting the H2S leakage of biogas. Sci Rep. 2014 Aug;4:6028.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ch’ng J-H, Mok S, Bozdech Z, Lear MJ, Boudhar A, Russell B, et al. A whole cell pathway screen reveals seven novel chemosensitizers to combat chloroquine resistant malaria. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1734.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morgan A. Eating the Big Fish. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Li D, Chen Y, editors. Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture VI: 6th IFIP WG 5.14 International Conference, CCTA 2012, Zhangjiajie, China, October 19-21, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Park YA, Karadkar U, Furuta R. Component-Based Authoring of Complex, Petri net-based Digital Library Infrastructure. In: Lalmas M, Jose J, Rauber A, Sebastiani F, Frommholz I, editors. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 14th European Conference, ECDL 2010, Glasgow, UK, September 6-10, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010; pp 22–9.

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 Clinical Practice.

Blog post

Andrew E. What Are Delusions – And How Best Can We Treat Them? [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 May [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/what-are-delusions-and-how-best-can-we-treat-them/

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. Feasibility of Treating Contractors’ Independent Research and Development Costs as a Budget Line Item. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Munn JE. Information Technology Certification Training Implementation: Exploratory Case Study of Air Force and Civilian Leaders Experiences. 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

Collins-Hughes L. The God of Wine’s Grand Plan in the Garden State. New York Times. 2017 Feb;C2.

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 Clinical Practice
Abbreviation	Nephron Clin. Pract.
ISSN (online)	1660-2110
Scope	General Medicine Nephrology