How to format your references using the Current Urology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current 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	Download the output style file
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

Maquat LE. Molecular biology. Skiing toward nonstop mRNA decay. Science. 2002 Mar;295(5563):2221–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Renshaw CE, Schulson EM. Universal behaviour in compressive failure of brittle materials. Nature. 2001 Aug;412(6850):897–900.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kinoshita T, Wenger T, Weiss DS. A quantum Newton’s cradle. Nature. 2006 Apr;440(7086):900–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Peterson BJ, McClelland J, Curry R, Holmes RM, Walsh JE, Aagaard K. Trajectory shifts in the Arctic and subarctic freshwater cycle. Science. 2006 Aug;313(5790):1061–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoy J. Forensic Radio Survey Techniques for Cell Site Analysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Liu J, Alippi C, Bouchon-Meunier B, Greenwood GW, Abbass HA, editors. Advances in Computational Intelligence: IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2012, Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012. Plenary/Invited Lectures. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Brenn T, Calonje E. Melanoctyic Lesions of the Vulva and Vagina. In: Brown L, editor. Pathology of the Vulva and Vagina. London: Springer; 2013; pp 113–45.

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 Urology.

Blog post

Hamilton K. Smoking May Protect Against Parkinson’s Disease – But It’s More Likely To Kill You [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Jun [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/smoking-may-protect-you-from-parkinsons-disease-but-its-more-likely-to-kill-you/

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. Acid Rain: Federal Research Into Effects on Waters and Forests. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Prochorchik VL. Increasing infant mental health awareness. 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

Pols M. Out of the Ashes. New York Times. 2017 May;BR17.

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 Urology
Abbreviation	Curr. Urol.
ISSN (print)	1661-7649
ISSN (online)	1661-7657
Scope	Oncology Reproductive Medicine Urology