How to format your references using the Renal Replacement Therapy citation style

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

1. Wickware P. Postdocs reject academic research. Nature. 2000;407:429–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Vernot B, Akey JM. Resurrecting surviving Neandertal lineages from modern human genomes. Science. 2014;343:1017–21.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Schultz PH, Staid MI, Pieters CM. Lunar activity from recent gas release. Nature. 2006;444:184–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Déjardin J, Rappailles A, Cuvier O, Grimaud C, Decoville M, Locker D, et al. Recruitment of Drosophila Polycomb group proteins to chromatin by DSP1. Nature. 2005;434:533–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Traitler H, Coleman B, Hofmann K. Food Industry Design, Technology and Innovation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Glinz M, Heymans P, editors. Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality: 15th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2009 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 8-9, 2009 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kinder-Kurlanda K, Boos D. Socio-ethical Issues of Ubicomp: Societal Trends, Transparency, and Information Control. In: Kinder-Kurlanda K, Ehrwein Nihan C, editors. Ubiquitous Computing in the Workplace: What Ethical Issues? An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 61–74.

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 Renal Replacement Therapy.

Blog post

1. Fang J. New Horizons Phoned Home! IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Federal-Aid Highways: Cost and Oversight of Major Highway and Bridge Projects--Issues and Options. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 May. Report No.: GAO-03-764T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Black AM. Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Ohio Statewide Agricultural Leadership Program [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2006.

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

1. Koblin J. Ex-Fox Hosts Engage in Feud On Settlement. New York Times. 2017 Oct 23;B1.

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	Renal Replacement Therapy
Abbreviation	Ren. Replace. Ther.
ISSN (online)	2059-1381
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