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

Smaglik P (2003) Fears for foreign physicists. Nature 424:979

A journal article with 2 authors

Prather MJ, Blake DR (2012) F. Sherwood Rowland (1927-2012). Nature 484:168

A journal article with 3 authors

Alapan Y, Little JA, Gurkan UA (2014) Heterogeneous red blood cell adhesion and deformability in sickle cell disease. Sci Rep 4:7173

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jósvay K, Winter Z, Katona RL, et al (2014) Besides neuro-imaging, the Thy1-YFP mouse could serve for visualizing experimental tumours, inflammation and wound-healing. Sci Rep 4:6776

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guzinski J, Abu-Rub H, Strankowski P (2015) Variable Speed AC Drives with Inverter Output Filters. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Sakai Y, Vassilicos C (2016) Fractal Flow Design: How to Design Bespoke Turbulence and Why. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Frunze N (2014) Essential Mass and Structure of Soil Microorganisms in the Black Earth. In: Dent D (ed) Soil as World Heritage. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 29–35

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

Fang J (2015) Costa Rican Surge In Snakebites Linked To El Niño Cycles. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/costa-rica-surge-snakebites-linked-el-nino/. 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 (1996) Resources, Community, and Economic Development Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. 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

Moeller RA (2008) “No thanks, those are boy books”: A feminist cultural analysis of graphic novels as curricular materials. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Kelly C (2012) Austin Auteur Tries Traditional but Stays Eccentric. New York Times A27B

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

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