How to format your references using the Pediatric Nephrology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pediatric Nephrology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Schiermeier Q (2003) Home truths. Nature 423:900–901

A journal article with 2 authors

Nicolet A, Zolla F (2009) Physics. Cloaking with curved spaces. Science 323:46–47

A journal article with 3 authors

Webber BL, Le Maitre DC, Kriticos DJ (2012) Comment on “Climatic niche shifts are rare among terrestrial plant invaders.” Science 338:193; author reply 193

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kesavan L, Tiruvalam R, Ab Rahim MH, et al (2011) Solvent-free oxidation of primary carbon-hydrogen bonds in toluene using Au-Pd alloy nanoparticles. Science 331:195–199

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahamed SV (2006) Intelligent Internet Knowledge Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Stanger O (2012) Water Soluble Vitamins: Clinical Research and Future Application. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Spengel C, Zöllkau Y (2012) E. Summary of Conclusion. In: Spengel C, Zöllkau Y (eds) Common Corporate Tax Base (CC(C)TB) and Determination of Taxable Income: An International Comparison. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 99–100

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 Pediatric Nephrology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) New Nanoparticles Can Deliver Cancer Drugs And Monitor Release. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2000) Mass Transit: Implementation of FTA’s New Starts Evaluation Process and FY 2001 Funding Proposals. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Skinner M (2008) Enamel -dentine junction morphology of extant hominoid and fossil hominin lower molars. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Crane AT, Hay G, Larsen PT (2011) Mortgage Market Due for Overhaul. New York Times B2

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	Pediatric Nephrology
Abbreviation	Pediatr. Nephrol.
ISSN (print)	0931-041X
ISSN (online)	1432-198X
Scope	Nephrology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health