How to format your references using the Canadian Urological Association Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Urological Association Journal (CUAJ). 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

Bertrand CA. Tech.Sight. Color by number: imaging large data. Science;293:1335–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Faden RR, Karron RA. Public health and biosecurity. The obligation to prevent the next dual-use controversy. Science;335:802–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Klöckner H-R, Baan WA, Garrett MA. Investigation of the obscuring circumnuclear torus in the active galaxy Mrk231. Nature;421:821–3.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tobing LYM, Tjahjana L, Zhang DH, et al. Deep subwavelength fourfold rotationally symmetric split-ring-resonator metamaterials for highly sensitive and robust biosensing platform. Sci Rep;3:2437.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vegh A. Web Development with the Mac®. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Bosch J (ed). Continuous Software Engineering. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Matsumoto A, Szidarovszky F. Relation to Other Mathematical Problems. In: Szidarovszky F, ed. Game Theory and Its Applications. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2016:49–52.

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 Canadian Urological Association Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E. Glow in the dark piglets could save lives. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/glow-dark-piglets-could-save-lives/. Accessed October 30, 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. Transportation Trust Funds. AIMD-95-95R; Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; March 15, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Truong T. Microfluidics-based system for high-throughput analysis of nitrite in harbor water. Doctoral Dissertation; California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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

Salms-Moss S. Absolutely Final Delivery. New York Times, January 7, 2016, A18.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Canadian Urological Association Journal
ISSN (print)	1911-6470
ISSN (online)	1920-1214
Scope