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

Gonzalez C. Cell division: A last-minute decision. Nature. 2015 Dec;528(7581):196–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Campillo M, Paul A. Long-range correlations in the diffuse seismic coda. Science. 2003 Jan;299(5606):547–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

DeCoursey TE, Morgan D, Cherny VV. The voltage dependence of NADPH oxidase reveals why phagocytes need proton channels. Nature. 2003 Apr;422(6931):531–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Selbach M, Schwanhäusser B, Thierfelder N, Fang Z, Khanin R, Rajewsky N. Widespread changes in protein synthesis induced by microRNAs. Nature. 2008 Sep;455(7209):58–63.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Diamond N. Between Skins. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons; 2013.

An edited book

Lone SH. Chemical and Pharmacological Perspective of Artemisia amygdalina. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Gorton M, Ness M, White J. Segmenting Consumers Using Cluster Analysis: An Application to Food Motivations in the Western Balkan Countries. In: Barjolle D, Gorton M, Milošević Đorđević J, Stojanović Ž, editors. Food Consumer Science: Theories, Methods and Application to the Western Balkans. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013; pp 43–55.

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. Silverbacks And Greenbacks: The Catch-22 At The Heart Of Gorilla Conservation [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Sep [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/silverbacks-and-greenbacks-catch-22-heart-gorilla-conservation/

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. Information Technology Reform: Billions of Dollars in Savings Have Been Realized, but Agencies Need to Complete Reinvestment Plans. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Taboada-Peña R. A Self-Empowering Holistic Art-Based Model Designed to Promote Emotional Well-Being, Coping Skills, and Self-Esteem in Youth. 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

Rockwell J. He Put Brooklyn on the Map. New York Times. 2017 Feb;AR8.

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

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