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

Liedl T. Nanotechnology: Pathfinder for DNA constructs. Nature. 2015 Jul;523(7561):412–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Szalay A, Gray J. The world-wide telescope. Science. 2001 Sep;293(5537):2037–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tang R-Y, Li G, Yu J-Q. Conformation-induced remote meta-C-H activation of amines. Nature. 2014 Mar;507(7491):215–20.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Andreae MO, Rosenfeld D, Artaxo P, Costa AA, Frank GP, Longo KM, et al. Smoking rain clouds over the Amazon. Science. 2004 Feb;303(5662):1337–42.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Auditing Process Safety Management Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1992.

An edited book

Bagarello F, Passante R, Trapani C, editors. Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians in Quantum Physics: Selected Contributions from the 15th International Conference on Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians in Quantum Physics, Palermo, Italy, 18-23 May 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Alam MD, Gühl UF. Outlook. In: Gühl UF, editor. Project-Management in Practice: A Guideline and Toolbox for Successful Projects. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016; pp 123–5.

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

Fang J. Hungry Bats Jam Each Other’s Sonar Signals [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Nov

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: Significant Problems of Critical Automation Program Contribute to Risks Facing 2010 Census. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sokoya K. A Historical Analysis of the Contributions of the Black Power Movement to Higher Education: 1960 – 1980. 2014

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

Yablonsky L. Motorcycle Derby. New York Times. 2010 Sep;ST3.

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