How to format your references using the Nephron Physiology citation style

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

Chi KR. Microscopy: Ever-increasing resolution. Nature. 2009 Dec;462(7273):675–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lessard J, Sauvageau G. Bmi-1 determines the proliferative capacity of normal and leukaemic stem cells. Nature. 2003 May;423(6937):255–60.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li C-YT, Poo M-M, Dan Y. Burst spiking of a single cortical neuron modifies global brain state. Science. 2009 May;324(5927):643–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ram RJ, Verberkmoes NC, Thelen MP, Tyson GW, Baker BJ, Blake RC 2nd, et al. Community proteomics of a natural microbial biofilm. Science. 2005 Jun;308(5730):1915–20.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Horton W. E-Learning by Design. San Francisco, CA, USA: Pfeiffer; 2011.

An edited book

Rissanen K, editor. Advanced X-Ray Crystallography. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Koenigsmann J. Undecidability in Number Theory. In: Koenigsmann J, Macpherson HD, Pillay A, Toffalori C, Wilkie AJ, editors. Model Theory in Algebra, Analysis and Arithmetic: Cetraro, Italy 2012, Editors: H. Dugald Macpherson, Carlo Toffalori. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014; pp 159–95.

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 Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew D. Healthcare’s Dirty Little Secret: Results From Many Clinical Trials Are Unreliable [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Oct [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/healthcares-dirty-little-secret-results-from-many-clinical-trials-are-unreliable/

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. Title 6--NAD Electronic Signature. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Boudreau M-L. Chanter en français en Louisiane: Du passé vers le futur. 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

Weaver MA. Why Do They Go? New York Times. 2015 Apr;MM42.

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 Physiology
Abbreviation	Nephron Physiol.
ISSN (online)	1660-2137
Scope	Physiology General Medicine Nephrology Physiology (medical)