How to format your references using the Nephron Extra citation style

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

Kemp M. Science in culture: A mechanical mind. Nature. 2003 Jan;421(6920):214.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oliveri P, Davidson EH. Development. Built to run, not fail. Science. 2007 Mar;315(5818):1510–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Adilakshmi T, Bellur DL, Woodson SA. Concurrent nucleation of 16S folding and induced fit in 30S ribosome assembly. Nature. 2008 Oct;455(7217):1268–72.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wilson KA, McBride MF, Bode M, Possingham HP. Prioritizing global conservation efforts. Nature. 2006 Mar;440(7082):337–40.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Langlois P. Simulation of Complex Systems in GIS. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Popescu-Zeletin R, Jonas K, Rai IA, Glitho R, Villafiorita A, editors. e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries: Third International ICST Conference, AFRICOMM 2011, Zanzibar, Tanzania, November 23-24, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Chincholkar S, Patil S, Sarode P, Rane M. Fermentative Production of Bacterial Phenazines. In: Chincholkar S, Thomashow L, editors. Microbial Phenazines: Biosynthesis, Agriculture and Health. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013; pp 89–100.

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 Extra.

Blog post

Carpineti A. The Mysterious CERN Detection Might Be More Than One Particle [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Jul [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/the-mysterious-cern-detection-might-be-more-than-one-particle/

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. District of Columbia: Planned Funding and Schedule for D.C. Public Schools’ Modernization Program Are Unrealistic. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

van der Veen AM. Domestic Politics, International Inaction: The United States and Human Rights Treaties. 2012

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

Grynbaum MM. ‘Transparency’ Of Tweets Risks Eroding Media’s Trust. New York Times. 2017 Jul;A12.

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 Extra
Abbreviation	Nephron Extra
ISSN (online)	1664-5529
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