How to format your references using the Kidney International Supplements citation style

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

Wyatt T. High-energy colliders and the rise of the standard model. Nature. 2007;448(7151):274-280.

A journal article with 2 authors

Könneker C, Lugger B. History of science. Public Science 2.0--back to the future. Science. 2013;342(6154):49-50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green SP, Jones C, Stasch A. Stable magnesium(I) compounds with Mg-Mg bonds. Science. 2007;318(5857):1754-1757.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lind J, Lindenfors P, Ghirlanda S, Lidén K, Enquist M. Dating human cultural capacity using phylogenetic principles. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1785.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aksamija A. Integrating Innovation in Architecture. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Luch A, ed. Molecular, Clinical and Environmental Toxicology: Volume 2: Clinical Toxicology. Vol 100. Birkhäuser; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Chepoi V, Estellon B. Packing and Covering δ-Hyperbolic Spaces by Balls. In: Charikar M, Jansen K, Reingold O, Rolim JDP, eds. Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques: 10th International Workshop, APPROX 2007, and 11th International Workshop, RANDOM 2007, Princeton, NJ, USA, August 20-22, 2007. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2007:59-73.

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 Kidney International Supplements.

Blog post

Andrew D. We’ve Been Wrong About The Origins Of Life For 90 Years. IFLScience. August 15, 2016.

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. Developing and Using Questionnaires. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hussmann S. Profiling Drilling Fluid Invasion in Sandstones Using Water Based Muds: Implications for Bridging and Wellbore Strengthening Effects. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana; 2014.

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

Crow K. One Week of Silent Soccer Seems to Be Quite Enough. New York Times. May 5, 2002:146.

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	Kidney International Supplements
Abbreviation	Kidney Int. Suppl. (2011)
ISSN (print)	2157-1724
ISSN (online)	2157-1716
Scope	Nephrology