How to format your references using the International Brazilian Journal Of Urology citation style

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

Mollenauer LF: Physics. Nonlinear optics in fibers. Science. 2003; 302:996–97.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ward WR, Canup RM: Forced resonant migration of Pluto’s outer satellites by Charon. Science. 2006; 313:1107–09.

A journal article with 3 authors

Griffin BM, Schott J, Schink B: Nitrite, an electron donor for anoxygenic photosynthesis. Science. 2007; 316:1870.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jarillo-Herrero P, Kong J, van der Zant HSJ, Dekker C, Kouwenhoven LP, De Franceschi S: Orbital Kondo effect in carbon nanotubes. Nature. 2005; 434:484–88.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coutts J: Loft Conversions. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2013.

An edited book

[No Authors] Speaker Classification I: Fundamentals, Features, and Methods. vol. 4343. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer. 2007; 4343vol.

A chapter in an edited book

Masud MM, Kiringa I: Collaborative Data Synchronization in an Instance-Mapped P2P Data Sharing System. In: Meersman R, Tari Z, Herrero P, editors. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM 2007 Workshops: OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters, AWeSOMe, CAMS, OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium, MONET, OnToContent, ORM, PerSys, PPN, RDDS, SSWS, and SWWS 2007, Vilamoura, Portugal, November 25-30, 2007, Proceedings, Part I, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer. 2007, pp. 7–8.

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 International Brazilian Journal Of Urology.

Blog post

Andrews R: High-Risk Stem Cell Therapy Found To Halt Multiple Sclerosis. IFLScience. 2016. Available at. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/high-risk-stem-cell-therapy-found-halt-multiple-sclerosis/.

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: Elementary and Secondary Education: Ed-Flex States Vary in Implementation of Waiver Process. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office. 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Le R: Three-Power Power System State Estimation Using Extended Kalman Filter with CompactRIO Implementation. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 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

Branch J: The Man Inside an Oiled Machine. New York Times. 2016:D1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	International Brazilian Journal Of Urology
Abbreviation	Int. Braz J Urol
ISSN (print)	1677-5538
ISSN (online)	1677-6119
Scope	Urology