How to format your references using the 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 Journal of the American Society 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

Ward BB: Oceans. How nitrogen is lost. Science 341: 352–353, 2013

A journal article with 2 authors

Bundock P, Hooykaas P: An Arabidopsis hAT-like transposase is essential for plant development. Nature 436: 282–284, 2005

A journal article with 3 authors

Yu DYW, Hoster HE, Batabyal SK: Bulk antimony sulfide with excellent cycle stability as next-generation anode for lithium-ion batteries. Sci. Rep. 4: 4562, 2014

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lee H, Dellatore SM, Miller WM, Messersmith PB: Mussel-inspired surface chemistry for multifunctional coatings. Science 318: 426–430, 2007

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ravindran K: The Mathematics of Financial Models. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.;

An edited book

Hu B, Morasch K, Pickl S, Siegle M, editors: Operations Research Proceedings 2010: Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer;

A chapter in an edited book

Bergeron M, Conklin D: Temporal Patterns in Polyphony. In: Mathematics and Computation in Music: Second International Conference, MCM 2009, John Clough Memorial Conference New Haven, CT, USA, June 19-22, 2009. Proceedings, edited by Chew E, Childs A, Chuan C-H, pp 32–42, 2009

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 the American Society of Nephrology.

Blog post

Andrews R: World’s Oldest Orca Returns To Washington State Coast In “High Spirits” [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/worlds-oldest-orca-returns-to-washington-state-coast-in-high-spirits/ [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: Air Traffic Control: Preliminary Observations on Commercialized Air Navigation Service Providers. 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

Graham OB: The Chiron Complex: From Spiritual Bypassing to Individuation. 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

Greenhouse L: Trying to Decipher the Justices on the Current State of the Death Penalty. New York Times. A21, 2007

In-text citations

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

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 the American Society of Nephrology
Abbreviation	J. Am. Soc. Nephrol.
ISSN (print)	1046-6673
ISSN (online)	1533-3450
Scope	General Medicine Nephrology