How to format your references using the World Journal of Nephrology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of 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	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

Atlas RM. Public health. National security and the biological research community. Science 2002; 298: 753–754.

A journal article with 2 authors

Otterstrom JJ, van Oijen AM. Biochemistry. Nudging through a nucleosome. Science 2009; 325: 547–548.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu J, Zhang C, Qiao H. The significance of p40 expression in sclerosing hemangioma of lung. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 6102.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Feng Y, Liu H, Wang P, Ye F, Tan Q, Yang J. Enhancing the electrocatalytic property of hollow structured platinum nanoparticles for methanol oxidation through a hybrid construction. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 6204.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Camarillo G, García-Martín MA. The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Nijholt A (ed). Playful User Interfaces: Interfaces that Invite Social and Physical Interaction. Singapore: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Li J, Huang W. The EMMS Principle in Virtual Process Engineering. In: Huang W, editor. Towards Mesoscience: The Principle of Compromise in Competition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014: 45–49.

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 World Journal of Nephrology.

Blog post

Luntz S. Boxes For Owls Help Overcome Middle East Divisions. IFLScience. 2017. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/boxes-for-owls-help-overcome-middle-east-divisions/

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. Report to the Secretary, HEW, on the National Direct Student Loan Delinquency Rate. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Garcia CA. Tracking chemistry self-efficacy and achievement in a preparatory chemistry course. 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

Shear MD, Pear R. Former Obama Aides Lead Opposition to the Effort to Repeal the Health Law. New York Times. 2017; : A18.

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	World Journal of Nephrology
ISSN (online)	2220-6124
Scope