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

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

Murphy KM. Comment on “Activation of β-catenin in dendritic cells regulates immunity versus tolerance in the intestine.” Science. 2011 Jul 22;333(6041):405; author reply 405.

A journal article with 2 authors

Donnelly JP, Woodruff JD. Intense hurricane activity over the past 5,000 years controlled by El Niño and the West African monsoon. Nature. 2007 May 24;447(7143):465–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoshimura K, Onda Y, Fukushima T. Sediment particle size and initial radiocesium accumulation in ponds following the Fukushima DNPP accident. Sci Rep. 2014 Mar 31;4:4514.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Astakhov SA, Burbanks AD, Wiggins S, Farrelly D. Chaos-assisted capture of irregular moons. Nature. 2003 May 15;423(6937):264–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bai Q, Bai Y, Ruan W. Advances in Pipes and Pipelines. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Epstein M. Material Inhomogeneities and their Evolution: A Geometric Approach. Elżanowski M, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. XIII, 261 p. (Interaction Mechanics, Mathematics).

A chapter in an edited book

Cheng LP, Toh TL. Mathematical Problem-Solving Using Real-World Problems. In: Cho YH, Caleon IS, Kapur M, editors. Authentic Problem Solving and Learning in the 21st Century: Perspectives from Singapore and Beyond. Singapore: Springer; 2015. p. 57–71. (Education Innovation Series).

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 Indian Journal of Urology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. A Solar Storm Almost Started World War Three [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-solar-storm-almost-started-world-war-three/

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. Technology Transfer: Implementation of CRADAs at NIST, Army, and DOE. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Jun. Report No.: T-RCED-93-53.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wall JD. The Effects of Acute L-Dopa on Brux-like and Masticatory Motor Patterns: EMG Phase Analysis in Rats [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2017.

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

Davey M, Walsh MW. Chicago Sees Pension Crisis Drawing Near. New York Times. 2013 Aug 6;A1.

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	Indian Journal of Urology
Abbreviation	Indian J. Urol.
ISSN (print)	0970-1591
ISSN (online)	1998-3824
Scope	Urology