How to format your references using the Current Bladder Dysfunction Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Bladder Dysfunction Reports. 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. McGilvray A. Research assessment: the limits of excellence. Nature. 2014;511:S64-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Grewal SIS, Elgin SCR. Transcription and RNA interference in the formation of heterochromatin. Nature. 2007;447:399–406.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wessling M, Morcillo LG, Abdu S. Nanometer-thick lateral polyelectrolyte micropatterns induce macrosopic electro-osmotic chaotic fluid instabilities. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4294.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Xin H, Liu D, Wan M, Safari A, Kim H, Sun W, et al. TPP1 is a homologue of ciliate TEBP-beta and interacts with POT1 to recruit telomerase. Nature. 2007;445:559–62.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cooney N. How to Be Great at Doing Good. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Maimon O, Rokach L, editors. Soft Computing for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Woods D. Optical Computing and Computational Complexity. In: Calude CS, Dinneen MJ, Păun G, Rozenberg G, Stepney S, editors. Unconventional Computation: 5th International Conference, UC 2006, York, UK, September 4-8, 2006 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 27–40.

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 Current Bladder Dysfunction Reports.

Blog post

1. Fang J. New Blood Test Forecasts Breast Cancer Risk [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/blood-test-hopes-forecast-breast-cancer-risk/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Learning Disabilities: The Link to Delinquency Should Be Determined, but Schools Should Do More Now. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Mar. Report No.: GGD-76-97.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Megowan G. A correlation study of emotional intelligence and behavioral style of bio-pharmaceutical industry District Sales Managers [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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

1. Rothenberg B. Mixture of Upsets and Injuries Leaves Chase for Men’s Title Wide Open. New York Times. 2017 Sep 2;SP3.

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	Current Bladder Dysfunction Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Bladder Dysfunct. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1931-7212
ISSN (online)	1931-7220
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology