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

Jacobson MZ. Comment on “Radiative absorption enhancements due to the mixing state of atmospheric black carbon.” Science. 2013 Jan;339(6118):393.

A journal article with 2 authors

Froehler MT, Duffy CJ. Cortical neurons encoding path and place: where you go is where you are. Science. 2002 Mar;295(5564):2462–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Männikkö R, Elinder F, Larsson HP. Voltage-sensing mechanism is conserved among ion channels gated by opposite voltages. Nature. 2002 Oct;419(6909):837–41.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Collins S, Ruina A, Tedrake R, Wisse M. Efficient bipedal robots based on passive-dynamic walkers. Science. 2005 Feb;307(5712):1082–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Szczecinski L, Alvarado A. Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Hall RD. Russia’s Cosmonauts: Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Center. New York, NY: Praxis; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Fu Y. Linear and Nonlinear Wave Propagation in Coated or Uncoated Elastic Half-spaces. In: Destrade M, Saccomandi G, editors. Waves in Nonlinear Pre-Stressed Materials. Vienna: Springer; 2007; pp 103–27.

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

Hale T. Can You Spot The 1.8-Meter Snake Lurking In This Photo? [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Feb

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. Railroad Safety: Engineer Work Shift Length and Schedule Variability. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Al-Alawadhi F. Oral History of Women Educators in Kuwait: A Comparative Model of Care Ethics Between Noddings and Al-Ghazali. 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

Walsh MW, Corkery M. Senate Panel Seeks More Details About Puerto Rico’s Debt and Long-Term Needs. New York Times. 2015 Sep;B4.

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)

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