How to format your references using the European Urology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European 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

[1]

Taylor JP. Neurodegenerative diseases: G-quadruplex poses quadruple threat. Nature 2014;507:175–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bliss T, Schoepfer R. Neuroscience. Controlling the ups and downs of synaptic strength. Science 2004;304:973–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Greiner J, Cuby JG, McCaughrean MJ. An unusually massive stellar black hole in the Galaxy. Nature 2001;414:522–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Schotte F, Lim M, Jackson TA, Smirnov AV, Soman J, Olson JS, et al. Watching a protein as it functions with 150-ps time-resolved x-ray crystallography. Science 2003;300:1944–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Horton I. Ivor Horton’s Beginning Visual C++® 2010. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Zhang R. Fuzzy Control of Queuing Systems. London: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Morris P. A Window on the World—Wildlife Dioramas. In: Tunnicliffe SD, Scheersoi A, editors. Natural History Dioramas: History, Construction and Educational Role, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015, p. 33–7.

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 European Urology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. NO, Mars Will NOT Appear As Large As The Full Moon In The Night Sky. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/no-mars-will-not-appear-large-full-moon-night-sky/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Highway Public-Private Partnerships: Securing Potential Benefits and Protecting the Public Interest Could Result from More Rigorous Up-front Analysis. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ortiz Martinez B. Diabetes among older Latino adults. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

Nagourney A, Shear MD. Call From California: President Trump, Where Are You? New York Times 2017:A13.

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	European Urology
Abbreviation	Eur. Urol.
ISSN (print)	0302-2838
Scope	Urology