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

Holt R. US election: Politicians should think like scientists. Nature. 2012 Sep;489(7417):493–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Supek F, Lehner B. Differential DNA mismatch repair underlies mutation rate variation across the human genome. Nature. 2015 May;521(7550):81–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hu H, Gan J, Jonas P. Interneurons. Fast-spiking, parvalbumin⁺ GABAergic interneurons: from cellular design to microcircuit function. Science. 2014 Aug;345(6196):1255263.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chen Y, Deng K, Qiu X, Wang C. Visualizing cyclic peptide hydration at the single-molecule level. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2461.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tourlakis G. Mathematical Logic. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Cherry SR. PET: Physics, Instrumentation, and Scanners. New York, NY: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Tse PW, Hu J. A Fusion Approach with Application to Oil Sand Pump Prognostics. In: Tse PW, Mathew J, Wong K, Lam R, Ko CN, editors. Engineering Asset Management - Systems, Professional Practices and Certification: Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM 2013) & the 3rd International Conference on Utility Management & Safety (ICUMAS). Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015; pp 31–41.

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

Evans K. Stephen Hawking: Humans Only Have About 1,000 Years Left [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Nov

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. Department of Transportation: Experts Identified Areas for Operational Improvements without Implementing Organizational Changes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mikhailik Y. Longing Limned. 2013

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. Hillary Clinton Health Panel Hears the People, Invitation Only. New York Times. 1993 Mar;17.

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)