How to format your references using the Central European Journal of Urology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Central European Journal of Urology. 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

Lindley D. Questions of direction. Nature. 2001 Mar 15;410(6826):305.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pons AJ, Karma A. Helical crack-front instability in mixed-mode fracture. Nature. 2010 Mar 4;464(7285):85–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hiraga T, Anderson IM, Kohlstedt DL. Grain boundaries as reservoirs of incompatible elements in the Earth’s mantle. Nature. 2004 Feb 19;427(6976):699–703.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lindroth AM, Cao X, Jackson JP, Zilberman D, McCallum CM, Henikoff S, et al. Requirement of CHROMOMETHYLASE3 for maintenance of CpXpG methylation. Science. 2001 Jun 15;292(5524):2077–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mather PM, Koch M. Computer Processing of Remotely-Sensed Images. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Tsonis AA. Nonlinear Dynamics in Geosciences. Elsner JB, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2007. XXIV, 604 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang L, Wu CK. Authenticated Group Key Agreement for Multicast. In: Pointcheval D, Mu Y, Chen K, editors. Cryptology and Network Security: 5th International Conference, CANS 2006, Suzhou, China, December 8-10, 2006 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 55–72. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Central European Journal of Urology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. How Gaming Impacts Childrens’ Academic Achievements. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/impact-technology-and-gaming-children-s-academic-achievements/

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. Programs for Land-Grant Schools. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Mar. Report No.: HEHS-96-91R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Steffan AL. An examination of the correlation between ninth grade mathematics grades and student performance on the mathematics portion of the California high school exit examination [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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

Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times. 2017 Mar 30;C23.

In-text citations

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

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	Central European Journal of Urology
Abbreviation	Cent. European J. Urol.
ISSN (print)	2080-4806
ISSN (online)	2080-4873
Scope	General Medicine