How to format your references using the Nephron Physiology citation style

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

García de Abajo FJ. Applied physics. Graphene nanophotonics. Science. 2013 Feb;339(6122):917–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kang TM, Hilgemann DW. Multiple transport modes of the cardiac Na+/Ca2+ exchanger. Nature. 2004 Feb;427(6974):544–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tarlinton RE, Meers J, Young PR. Retroviral invasion of the koala genome. Nature. 2006 Jul;442(7098):79–81.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Banu N, Chia A, Ho ZZ, Garcia AT, Paravasivam K, Grotenbreg GM, et al. Building and optimizing a virus-specific T cell receptor library for targeted immunotherapy in viral infections. Sci Rep. 2014 Feb;4:4166.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nasr VG, DiNardo JA. The Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia Handbook. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Rassias TM, Pardalos PM, editors. Mathematics Without Boundaries: Surveys in Pure Mathematics. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Johnson RA, Yang Y, Aguiar E, Rider A, Chawla NV. ALIVE: A Multi-relational Link Prediction Environment for the Healthcare Domain. In: Washio T, Luo J, editors. Emerging Trends in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: PAKDD 2012 International Workshops: DMHM, GeoDoc, 3Clust, and DSDM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 29 – June 1, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013; pp 36–46.

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 Physiology.

Blog post

Hamilton K. Three Ways Facebook Could Reduce Fake News Without Resorting To Censorship [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Dec

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 Competition: Restricting Airline Ticketing Rules Unlikely to Help Consumers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gaines M. Perceptions of knowledge sharing within hybrid learning environments: As iron sharpens iron among graduate students. 2017

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

Kelly M. CLINTON’S ECONOMIC PLAN: The Campaign; Gambling That a Tax-Cut Promise Was Not Taken Seriously. New York Times. 1993 Feb;A16.

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 Physiology
Abbreviation	Nephron Physiol.
ISSN (online)	1660-2137
Scope	Physiology General Medicine Nephrology Physiology (medical)