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

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

Weiss RA (2001) Gulliver’s travels in HIVland. Nature 410:963–967

A journal article with 2 authors

Bermingham E, Dick C (2001) Ecology and evolution. The Inga--newcomer or museum antiquity? Science 293:2214–2216

A journal article with 3 authors

Chuang JS, Rivoire O, Leibler S (2009) Simpson’s paradox in a synthetic microbial system. Science 323:272–275

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ghosh A, Praefcke GJK, Renault L, et al (2006) How guanylate-binding proteins achieve assembly-stimulated processive cleavage of GTP to GMP. Nature 440:101–104

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paczosa S, Peruchini C (2013) Selling Professional and Financial Services Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Dwivedi YK, Mäntymäki M, Ravishankar MN, et al (2016) Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: 15th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2016, Swansea, UK, September 13–15, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Zelle H, Wisse E, Mika Á, van Tilburg T (2013) Smoke Plume Modeling in Crisis Management. In: Zlatanova S, Peters R, Dilo A, Scholten H (eds) Intelligent Systems for Crisis Management: Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM) 2012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 51–66

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 Journal of Nephrology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Empire State Building Lights Up With Images Of Endangered Animals. In: IFLScience. 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

Government Accountability Office (1980) Proposed Revisions to Procurement Regulations Covering ADP Equipment and Services. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gokhin DS (2009) Structural and functional roles of nebulin in skeletal muscle. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Williams J (2016) Disappearing Act: The Art and Fraud of Faking Your Own Death. New York Times C4

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	Journal of Nephrology
Abbreviation	J. Nephrol.
ISSN (print)	1121-8428
ISSN (online)	1724-6059
Scope	Nephrology