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

Mueller KL. Antibodies. The future is now. Introduction. Science. 2013 Sep;341(6151):1191.

A journal article with 2 authors

Andrews L, Wang X. The infrared spectrum of Al2H6 in solid hydrogen. Science. 2003 Mar;299(5615):2049–52.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rogina B, Helfand SL, Frankel S. Longevity regulation by Drosophila Rpd3 deacetylase and caloric restriction. Science. 2002 Nov;298(5599):1745.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kasper LH, Boussouar F, Ney PA, Jackson CW, Rehg J, van Deursen JM, et al. A transcription-factor-binding surface of coactivator p300 is required for haematopoiesis. Nature. 2002 Oct;419(6908):738–43.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Radwanska M, Stankiewicz A, Wosatko A, Pamin J. Plate and Shell Structures. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Mehlhorn H, editor. Arthropods as Vectors of Emerging Diseases. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Lennox JA, Turner GM. Modelling Manufactured Capital Stocks and Material Flows in the Australian Stocks and Flows Framework. In: Suh S, editor. Handbook of Input-Output Economics in Industrial Ecology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009; pp 77–97.

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

Andrew E. New Baby Dinosaur Fossil Reveals Cause of Death [Internet]. IFLScience. 2013 Nov [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-baby-dinosaur-fossil-reveals-cause-death/

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. Questions for the Record Related to Amtrak’s Food and Beverage Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hasan SN. Design and optimization of 2012 Formula SAE chassis with finite element analysis for CSULB. 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

Saslow L. Nassau Backs Bid for Regional Planning Council. New York Times. 2007 Aug;LI2.

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

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