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. McLaren A. Stem cells: golden opportunities with ethical baggage. Science. 2000;288:1778.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Wulf WA, Jones AK. Computer science. Reflections on cybersecurity. Science. 2009;326:943–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Melchor RN, Buchwaldt R, Bowring S. A Late Eocene date for Late Triassic bird tracks. Nature. 2013;495:E1-2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Mann ME, Woodruff JD, Donnelly JP, Zhang Z. Atlantic hurricanes and climate over the past 1,500 years. Nature. 2009;460:880–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cannataro M, Guzzi PH. Data Management of Protein Interaction Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Chuvieco E, editor. Earth Observation of Wildland Fires in Mediterranean Ecosystems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sindou M. Is There a Place for Microsurgical Vascular Decompression of the Brainstem for Apparent Essential Blood Hypertension? A Review. In: Schramm J, editor. Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery: Volume 42. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 69–76.

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. O`Callaghan J. Earth Used To Be Orange. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Aviation Safety: Enhanced Requirements Can Improve Commuter Pilot Training. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Sep. Report No.: RCED-88-218.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Culumber JJ. Physician Practice Survival: The Role of Analytics in Shaping the Future [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2017.

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. Yablonsky L. Space Invader. New York Times. 2009 Oct 4;M234.

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