How to format your references using the Nature Reviews Urology citation style

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

Van Dyk, S. D. Astronomy. Elusive supernova progenitors. Science 302, 1161–1162 (2003).

A journal article with 2 authors

Park, J. & Yook, S.-H. Bayesian inference of natural rankings in incomplete competition networks. Sci. Rep. 4, 6212 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

Weymouth, A. J., Hofmann, T. & Giessibl, F. J. Quantifying molecular stiffness and interaction with lateral force microscopy. Science 343, 1120–1122 (2014).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Tsang, K. H. et al. The nucleosome assembly protein TSPYL2 regulates the expression of NMDA receptor subunits GluN2A and GluN2B. Sci. Rep. 4, 3654 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Franco, P. Understanding Bitcoin. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014).

An edited book

Advances in Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy. (Springer, New York, NY, 2014).

A chapter in an edited book

Zangaro, W. & Rondina, A. B. L. Arbuscular Mycorrhizas in Different Successional Stages in Some Brazilian Ecosystems. in Recent Advances on Mycorrhizal Fungi (ed. Pagano, M. C.) 47–62 (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016).

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 Nature Reviews Urology.

Blog post

Hale, T. Subway’s ‘Chicken’ Contains Just 50 Percent Chicken DNA, Says Investigation. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/subways-chicken-contains-just-50-percent-chicken-dna-says-investigation/ (2017).

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. Controls Over Nonimmigrant Aliens Remain Ineffective. (1980).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peterson, D. G. An application of geotechnical techniques to quantitative regional slope stability analysis San Clemente, California. (California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2012).

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

Billard, M. Get a Little Closer To the Sun. New York Times E5 (2010).

In-text citations

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

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	Nature Reviews Urology
Abbreviation	Nat. Rev. Urol.
ISSN (print)	1759-4812
ISSN (online)	1759-4820
Scope	Urology