How to format your references using the Renal Replacement Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Renal Replacement Therapy. 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

1. Mann A. Cosmology: The hunting of the dark. Nature. 2011;471:433–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Shedlock DJ, Shen H. Requirement for CD4 T cell help in generating functional CD8 T cell memory. Science. 2003;300:337–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Dominici F, Greenstone M, Sunstein CR. Science and regulation. Particulate matter matters. Science. 2014;344:257–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Buffelli M, Burgess RW, Feng G, Lobe CG, Lichtman JW, Sanes JR. Genetic evidence that relative synaptic efficacy biases the outcome of synaptic competition. Nature. 2003;424:430–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kitai A. Principles of Solar Cells, LEDs and Diodes: The role of the PN junction. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

1. Li H. Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Early Onset Schizophrenia at School. Pearrow M, Jimerson SR, editors. New York, NY: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Missbach M, Stelzel J, Gardiner C, Anderson G, Tempes M. Security Aspects for SAP on Cloud. In: Stelzel J, Gardiner C, Anderson G, Tempes M, editors. SAP on the Cloud. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 65–82.

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 Renal Replacement Therapy.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. The Alliance Between Jellyfish And Baby Fish Fails The Acid Test [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-alliance-between-jellyfish-and-baby-fish-fails-the-acid-test/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Aerospace Plane Technology: Research and Development Efforts in Europe. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Jul. Report No.: NSIAD-91-194.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Tripputi MT. Use of mediation in designing clinical trials with two primary endpoints [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2009.

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

1. Hanel M. The Octopus War. New York Times. 2013 Oct 16;MM50.

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	Renal Replacement Therapy
Abbreviation	Ren. Replace. Ther.
ISSN (online)	2059-1381
Scope