How to format your references using the Clinical Kidney Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Kidney Journal. 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

Xu X. Journal club. A palaeontologist considers the evolution of birds’ mechanism of breathing. Nature 2010; 464: 961.

A journal article with 2 authors

Coombs R, Georghiou L. Research and development. A new “industrial ecology.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 2002; 296: 471.

A journal article with 3 authors

Armitage JJ, Collier JS, Minshull TA. The importance of rift history for volcanic margin formation. Nature 2010; 465: 913–917.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Goodnow CC, Sprent J, Fazekas de St Groth B, Vinuesa CG. Cellular and genetic mechanisms of self tolerance and autoimmunity. Nature 2005; 435: 590–597.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Speight JG. Environmental Analysis and Technology for the Refining Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ: 2005.

An edited book

Drewes F, editor. Implementation and Application of Automata: 20th International Conference, CIAA 2015, Umeå, Sweden, August 18-21, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham: 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Rafajłowicz W. Method of Handling Constraints in Differential Evolution Using Fletcher’s Filter. In: Rutkowski L, Korytkowski M, Scherer R, Tadeusiewicz R, Zadeh LA, Zurada JM, eds. Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing: 12th International Conference, ICAISC 2013, Zakopane, Poland, June 9-13, 2013, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg: 2013; 46–55

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 Kidney Journal.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. Scientists Can Now Submit Proposals To Use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope [Internet]. IFLScience2017; [cited 2018 Oct 30] Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-can-now-submit-proposals-to-use-nasas-james-webb-space-telescope/

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. FTS2001: Improving the Revenue Estimation Process. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC: 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ressler KM. The path to leadership for Native American women at North Dakota tribal colleges. 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

Kelly C. Focused on Steering A Dinghy to Sydney. New York Times1999; : 812.

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	Clinical Kidney Journal
ISSN (print)	2048-8505
ISSN (online)	2048-8513
Scope