How to format your references using the International Urogynecology Journal citation style

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

Gavaghan H (2000) Emerging fields of basic chemistry in Europe. Nature 406:811–812

A journal article with 2 authors

Goldenfeld N, Woese C (2007) Biology’s next revolution. Nature 445:369

A journal article with 3 authors

O’D Alexander CM, Boss AP, Carlson RW (2001) The early evolution of the inner solar system: a meteoritic perspective. Science 293:64–68

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Almany GR, Berumen ML, Thorrold SR, et al (2007) Local replenishment of coral reef fish populations in a marine reserve. Science 316:742–744

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ansons AM, Davis H (2008) Diagnosis and Management of Ocular Motility Disorders. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Cohen RD (2011) Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Diagnosis and Therapeutics, 2nd ed. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

A chapter in an edited book

Bosco G, Matera F, Ennser K, et al (2012) Experiments on Long-Haul High-Capacity Transmission Systems. In: Teixeira A, Tosi Beleffi GM (eds) Optical Transmission: The FP7 BONE Project Experience. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 185–234

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 Urogynecology Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Lopsided Star Explosion Helps Unravel Mystery Of Supernova. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/lopsided-star-explosion-helps-unravel-mystery-supernova/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1986) Attack Warning: ADP Replacement for Warning and Assessment System Still Years Away. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schroeder M (2017) Investigating the Learnability of a Rogue Grammar: Null Subject Parameter Resetting in Second Language Acquisition. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Shear MD, Nixon R, Liptak A (2017) Justices Cancel Hearing on Travel Ban as Questions Linger on New Policy. New York Times 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	International Urogynecology Journal
Abbreviation	Int. Urogynecol. J.
ISSN (print)	0937-3462
ISSN (online)	1433-3023
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Urology