How to format your references using the Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. McDonald RA. Animal health: How to control bovine tuberculosis. Nature. 2014;511:158–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bowman JD, Rogers AEE. A lower limit of Δz > 0.06 for the duration of the reionization epoch. Nature. 2010;468:796–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Marteau TM, Hollands GJ, Fletcher PC. Changing human behavior to prevent disease: the importance of targeting automatic processes. Science. 2012;337:1492–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Amelin Y, Krot AN, Hutcheon ID, Ulyanov AA. Lead isotopic ages of chondrules and calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions. Science. 2002;297:1678–83.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Grinshpan L. Solving Enterprise Applications Performance Puzzles. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Sahin KS, Turner RS, editors. New Ground: Pushing the Boundaries of Studying Informal Learning in Science, Mathematics, and Technology. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Huth M, Kuo JH-P. On Designing Usable Policy Languages for Declarative Trust Aggregation. In: Tryfonas T, Askoxylakis I, editors. Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust: Second International Conference, HAS 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 45–56.

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 Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Dawn Breaks Over Distant Ceres … And Perhaps Reveals Signs Of Habitability [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/dawn-breaks-over-distant-ceres-and-perhaps-reveals-signs-habitability/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Impoundments of Funds of Energy Research and Development Administration and Department of Commerce. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 May. Report No.: OGC-77-17.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Grugan PK. The mindfulness practice of clinicians: A systematic review [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2016.

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. Wagner J. Mets’ Leadoff Hitter Technically Is Not Missing, but His Bat Has Vanished. New York Times. 2017 Apr 16;SP3.

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	Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease
Abbreviation	Can. J. Kidney Health Dis.
ISSN (online)	2054-3581
Scope