How to format your references using the Nephron citation style

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

Pardoll DM. Immunology. Stress, NK receptors, and immune surveillance. Science. 2001 Oct;294(5542):534–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Otsuka K, Karato S-I. Deep penetration of molten iron into the mantle caused by a morphological instability. Nature. 2012 Dec;492(7428):243–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cho Y, Lee JB, Hong J. Controlled release of an anti-cancer drug from DNA structured nano-films. Sci Rep. 2014 Feb;4:4078.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gaensler BM, Haverkorn M, Staveley-Smith L, Dickey JM, McClure-Griffiths NM, Dickel JR, et al. The magnetic field of the Large Magellanic Cloud revealed through Faraday rotation. Science. 2005 Mar;307(5715):1610–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Golio M. Engineering Your Retirement. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

Hasegawa Y. Realization Theory and Design of Digital Images. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Marchesin P. The Securitization of Aid: The Case of France. In: Brown S, Grävingholt J, editors. The Securitization of Foreign Aid. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016; pp 64–84.

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 Nephron.

Blog post

Andrew E. Divers Find Million-Dollar Treasure On 300-Year-Old Shipwreck [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Jul [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/divers-find-million-dollar-treasure-300-year-old-shipwreck/

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. Need To Reexamine JTIDS Requirements and Architecture. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wilensky SE. 340B prime vendor program: Health center decision making and barriers to participation. 2010

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

Neuman W. Mayor Ousted In Colombia After Claims Of Bungling. New York Times. 2013 Dec;A6.

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	Nephron
ISSN (print)	1660-8151
ISSN (online)	2235-3186
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