How to format your references using the Pediatric Nephrology citation style

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

Glazebrook K (2009) Galaxy formation: Too small to ignore. Nature 460:694–695

A journal article with 2 authors

Freeman BC, Yamamoto KR (2002) Disassembly of transcriptional regulatory complexes by molecular chaperones. Science 296:2232–2235

A journal article with 3 authors

DeBose JL, Lema SC, Nevitt GA (2008) Dimethylsulfoniopropionate as a foraging cue for reef fishes. Science 319:1356

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mao WL, Mao H-K, Goncharov AF, et al (2002) Hydrogen clusters in clathrate hydrate. Science 297:2247–2249

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beach D (1996) The Responsible Conduct of Research. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Holzbecher E (2007) Environmental Modeling: Using MATLAB®. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Frentz M, Sasane A (2014) A Subalgebra of the Hardy Algebra Relevant in Control Theory and Its Algebraic-Analytic Properties. In: Douglas RG, Krantz SG, Sawyer ET, et al (eds) The Corona Problem: Connections Between Operator Theory, Function Theory, and Geometry. Springer, New York, NY, pp 85–106

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 Pediatric Nephrology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Cooking The Books: When That Sensational New Research Finding Isn’t All It Seems. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2011) General Aviation: Security Assessments at Selected Airports. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Smith C (2013) The affect of acculturation on obesity among foreign-born Asians residing in the United States. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Barron J (2016) How a Shop Owner Predicts the Next President. New York Times A19

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	Pediatric Nephrology
Abbreviation	Pediatr. Nephrol.
ISSN (print)	0931-041X
ISSN (online)	1432-198X
Scope	Nephrology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health