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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Baughman RH. Materials science. Muscles made from metal. Science. 2003 Apr;300(5617):268–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wender PA, Miller BL. Synthesis at the molecular frontier. Nature. 2009 Jul;460(7252):197–201.

A journal article with 3 authors

Trumbore S, Brando P, Hartmann H. Forest health and global change. Science. 2015 Aug;349(6250):814–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fink JM, Göppl M, Baur M, Bianchetti R, Leek PJ, Blais A, et al. Climbing the Jaynes-Cummings ladder and observing its nonlinearity in a cavity QED system. Nature. 2008 Jul;454(7202):315–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rombach G. Spannbetonbau. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2010.

An edited book

Bavry AA. Indications and techniques of percutaneous procedures: Coronary, peripheral, and structural heart disease. Tarporley: Springer Healthcare Ltd.; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Régnier-Loilier A, Perron Z. The Birth of the First Child. In: Régnier-Loilier A, editor. The Contemporary Family in France: Partnership Trajectories and Domestic Organization. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015; pp 69–85.

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. Scientists Can’t Work Out Why The Radius Of A Proton Keeps Changing In Experiments [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Aug [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-cant-work-out-why-the-radius-of-a-proton-keeps-changing-in-experiments/

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. Human Factors: FAA’s Guidance and Oversight of Pilot Crew Resource Management Training Can Be Improved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lee M. A graphic design curriculum development project. 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

Lanchester J. The Major Blind Spots in Macroeconomics. New York Times. 2017 Feb;MM14.

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