How to format your references using the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). 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 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

Baker M: Whole-animal imaging: The whole picture. Nature 463: 977–980, 2010

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberts DL, Solow AR: Flightless birds: when did the dodo become extinct? Nature 426: 245, 2003

A journal article with 3 authors

Chiou PY, Ohta AT, Wu MC: Massively parallel manipulation of single cells and microparticles using optical images. Nature 436: 370–372, 2005

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schunck CH, Shin Y-I, Schirotzek A, Ketterle W: Determination of the fermion pair size in a resonantly interacting superfluid. Nature 454: 739–743, 2008

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoppert M: Microscopic Techniques in Biotechnology. Weinheim, FRG, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA

An edited book

Berg RH, Taylor CG, editors: Cell Biology of Plant Nematode Parasitism. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Zanzi A, Trombetta A: Discovering non-constant Conditional Functional Dependencies with Built-in Predicates. In: Database and Expert Systems Applications: 25th International Conference, DEXA 2014, Munich, Germany, September 1-4, 2014. Proceedings, Part I, edited by Decker H, Lhotská L, Link S, Spies M, Wagner RR, pp 35–49, 2014

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 Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Blog post

Andrew E: Lips are the Most Exposed Erogenous Zone, Which Makes Kissing Feel Very Good [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/lips-are-most-exposed-erogenous-zone-which-makes-kissing-feel-very-good/ [cited 2018 Oct 30]

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: Joint Strike Fighter: Progress Made and Challenges Remain. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kehoe MI: Tobacco control: A qualitative assessment of the perceptions and practices of nurse practitioners. 2008

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

Marx L: Michelle McGann and Jonathan Satter. New York Times. ST10, 2010

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
ISSN (print)	1555-9041
ISSN (online)	1555-905X
Scope