How to format your references using the Nephron Experimental Nephrology citation style

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

Jaeger NI. Surface science. Bridging gaps and opening windows. Science. 2001 Aug;293(5535):1601–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Falkowski PG, de Vargas C. Genomics and evolution. Shotgun sequencing in the sea: a blast from the past? Science. 2004 Apr;304(5667):58–60.

A journal article with 3 authors

Doniger DD, Herzog AV, Lashof DA. Climate change. An ambitious, centrist approach to global warming legislation. Science. 2006 Nov;314(5800):764–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ranson H, Claudianos C, Ortelli F, Abgrall C, Hemingway J, Sharakhova MV, et al. Evolution of supergene families associated with insecticide resistance. Science. 2002 Oct;298(5591):179–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Damrosch D. How to Read World Literature. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Pomerance C, Rassias MT, editors. Analytic Number Theory: In Honor of Helmut Maier’s 60th Birthday. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Morales Trujillo M, Oktaba H, Pino FJ, Orozco MJ. Applying Agile and Lean Practices in a Software Development Project into a CMMI Organization. In: Caivano D, Oivo M, Baldassarre MT, Visaggio G, editors. Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 12th International Conference, PROFES 2011, Torre Canne, Italy, June 20-22, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011; pp 17–29.

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 Experimental Nephrology.

Blog post

Andrews R. These Are The World’s Most Empathetic Countries [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Oct

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. FAA Financial Management: Further Actions Needed to Achieve Asset Accountability. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peterson K. Development of a facility-specific dietary training program for diet technicians. 2015

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. A Gifted Talker Is Speaking Out. New York Times. 2010 May;SP2.

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 Experimental Nephrology
ISSN (online)	1660-2129
Scope	Genetics Physiology General Medicine Nephrology