How to format your references using the European Urology Oncology citation style

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

Spurgeon D. Ontario joins the genomics goldrush. Nature 2000;404:692.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Scully MO, Svidzinsky AA. Physics. The Lamb shift--yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Science 2010;328:1239–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Thakur G, Prashanthi K, Thundat T. Directed self-assembly of proteins into discrete radial patterns. Sci Rep 2013;3:1923.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kramer C, Loros JJ, Dunlap JC, Crosthwaite SK. Role for antisense RNA in regulating circadian clock function in Neurospora crassa. Nature 2003;421:948–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rowe HE. Electromagnetic Propagation in Multi-Mode Random Media. New York, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2001.

An edited book

[1]

Baatrup G, editor. Multidisciplinary Treatment of Colorectal Cancer: Staging – Treatment – Pathology – Palliation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hardt N, Kuttenberger J. Epidemiological Aspects of Craniofacial/Skull Base Fractures. In: Hardt N, Kuttenberger J, editors. Craniofacial Trauma: Diagnosis and Management, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 63–76.

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 Oncology.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Titan’s Ocean is as Salty as the Dead Sea. IFLScience 2014.

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. Meeting the Aviation Challenges of the 1990s: Experts Define Key Problems and Identify Emerging Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Boos AL. The post-abortion experience: A content analysis. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

Grynbaum MM. ‘Transparency’ Of Tweets Risks Eroding Media’s Trust. New York Times 2017:A12.

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 Oncology
ISSN (print)	2588-9311
Scope