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

Travers A. Structural biology. The 30-nm fiber redux. Science. 2014 Apr;344(6182):370–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu Z, Herbert TD. High-latitude influence on the eastern equatorial Pacific climate in the early Pleistocene epoch. Nature. 2004 Feb;427(6976):720–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Finkelstein IJ, Visnapuu M-L, Greene EC. Single-molecule imaging reveals mechanisms of protein disruption by a DNA translocase. Nature. 2010 Dec;468(7326):983–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sunda W, Kieber DJ, Kiene RP, Huntsman S. An antioxidant function for DMSP and DMS in marine algae. Nature. 2002 Jul;418(6895):317–20.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwedt G. Chemie und Literatur - ein ungewöhnlicher Flirt. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2009.

An edited book

Plantier G, Schultz T, Fred A, Gamboa H, editors. Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies: 7th International Joint Conference, BIOSTEC 2014, Angers, France, March 3-6, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Toussaint B-M, Luengo V. Mining Surgery Phase-Related Sequential Rules from Vertebroplasty Simulations Traces. In: Holmes JH, Bellazzi R, Sacchi L, Peek N, editors. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: 15th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2015, Pavia, Italy, June 17-20, 2015. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015; pp 35–46.

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

Andrew E. Bicycle Bottle System Condenses Humidity From Air Into Drinkable Water [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Nov [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/bicycle-bottle-system-condenses-humidity-air-drinkable-water/

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. Aviation Safety: Serious Problems Continue to Trouble the Air Traffic Control Work Force. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pundir B. Surface pressure fluctuations due to an impinging underexpanded supersonic jet. 2011

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. From Good Times at the Garden to a New Era at the Armory. New York Times. 2012 Feb;B12.

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

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