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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Pediatric 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]

Ramsay H. Climate science: Shifting storms. Nature 2014;509:290–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pohrt R, Popov VL. Contact stiffness of randomly rough surfaces. Sci Rep 2013;3:3293.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Usuki F, Fujimura M, Yamashita A. Endoplasmic reticulum stress preconditioning attenuates methylmercury-induced cellular damage by inducing favorable stress responses. Sci Rep 2013;3:2346.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

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Bettelli E, Carrier Y, Gao W, Korn T, Strom TB, Oukka M, et al. Reciprocal developmental pathways for the generation of pathogenic effector TH17 and regulatory T cells. Nature 2006;441:235–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Hossler FE. Ultrastructure Atlas of Human Tissues. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Mosteller F. The Pleasures of Statistics: The Autobiography of Frederick Mosteller. New York, NY: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

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Asadi S, Farhad Masoudi S, Shahriari M. Simulation of Human Eye for Ophthalmic Brachytherapy Dosimetry Using MCNP-4C Code. In: Dössel O, Schlegel WC, editors. World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/3 Radiation Protection and Dosimetry, Biological Effects of Radiation, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 9–12.

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 Journal of Pediatric Urology.

Blog post

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Andrews R. Rare Antibody Found To Neutralize 98% Of All HIV Strains. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/rare-antibody-neutralize-98-hiv-strains/ (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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Actions Needed on Electronic Data Exchanges. 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

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Darko-Mensah K. Application of Data Envelopment Analysis to Measure the Online Outsourcing Efficiency of Sub-Saharan African Countries. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2019.

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]

Kelly C. The Skipper Is Waiting. New York Times 2010:C29.

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	Journal of Pediatric Urology
Abbreviation	J. Pediatr. Urol.
ISSN (print)	1477-5131
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Urology