How to format your references using the Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation citation style

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

Smoot GF. Thinking in aeons. Nature 2010; 467: S12.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jazayeri M, Movshon JA. A new perceptual illusion reveals mechanisms of sensory decoding. Nature 2007; 446: 912–915.

A journal article with 3 authors

Werner SL, Barken D, Hoffmann A. Stimulus specificity of gene expression programs determined by temporal control of IKK activity. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2005; 309: 1857–1861.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Neff U, Burns SJ, Mangini A, Mudelsee M, Fleitmann D, Matter A. Strong coherence between solar variability and the monsoon in Oman between 9 and 6 kyr ago. Nature 2001; 411: 290–293.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davies D. Philosophy of the Performing Arts. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK: 2011.

An edited book

Péter G, Rosa C, editors. Biodiversity and Ecophysiology of Yeasts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg: 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Belgasem FFB, Salleh HM. Characterization of Recombinant Enzymes. In: Amid A, ed. Recombinant Enzymes - From Basic Science to Commercialization. Springer International Publishing, Cham: 2015; 41–60

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 Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation.

Blog post

Andrew E. Is This The End Of Particle Physics As We Know It? Let’s Hope Not [Internet]. IFLScience2015; [cited 2018 Oct 30] Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/end-particle-physics-we-know-it-let-s-hope-not/

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. K-12 Education: Characteristics of the Investing in Innovation Fund. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC: 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Owen AK. Preventive health behaviors: A look at the correlation between regular physical activity and routine cervical cancer screening. 2012;

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. A Different Kind of Dystopian Novel. New York Times2017; : C5.

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	Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
Abbreviation	Nephrol. Dial. Transplant
ISSN (print)	0931-0509
ISSN (online)	1460-2385
Scope	Nephrology Transplantation