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

Moyer MW. Cell banks: life blood. Nature. 2013 Jun;498(7455):S16.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zaret KS, Grompe M. Generation and regeneration of cells of the liver and pancreas. Science. 2008 Dec;322(5907):1490–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schreiber RD, Old LJ, Smyth MJ. Cancer immunoediting: integrating immunity’s roles in cancer suppression and promotion. Science. 2011 Mar;331(6024):1565–70.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xu J, Bjursell MK, Himrod J, Deng S, Carmichael LK, Chiang HC, et al. A genomic view of the human-Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron symbiosis. Science. 2003 Mar;299(5615):2074–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Warren A. Dunes. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons; 2013.

An edited book

Cristini C. Sentire e pensare: Emozioni e apprendimento fra mente e cervello. Milano: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Chriss N, Ginzburg V. Springer Theory for u (sln). In: Ginzburg V, editor. Representation Theory and Complex Geometry. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser; 2010; pp 193–230.

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

O`Callaghan J. Mysterious Dimming Star May Have A Giant Cloud Of Material Orbiting It [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Dec [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/mysterious-dimming-star-may-have-a-giant-cloud-of-material-orbiting-it/

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. [Request for Clarification and Expansion of GAO Views on the Chadha Decision]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1984.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

ELBoushi TC. Evaluating ethics training and the outcome on leadership decision making: A phenomenological study. 2010

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

Severson K. In Pursuit of Farm Fresh Flavor. New York Times. 2007 Aug;LI1.

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
Scope