How to format your references using the Urologia Internationalis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Urologia Internationalis. 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

Feng JL. Physics. Searching for gravity’s hidden strength. Science. 2003 Oct;302(5646):795–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Klankermayer J, Leitner W. CHEMISTRY. Love at second sight for CO₂ and H₂ in organic synthesis. Science. 2015 Nov;350(6261):629–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

Harris RA, Rogers J, Milosavljevic A. Human-specific changes of genome structure detected by genomic triangulation. Science. 2007 Apr;316(5822):235–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhou L, Ou Q-D, Chen J-D, Shen S, Tang J-X, Li Y-Q, et al. Light manipulation for organic optoelectronics using bio-inspired moth’s eye nanostructures. Sci Rep. 2014 Feb;4:4040.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crichton RR, Ward RJ. Metal-based Neurodegeneration. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Stock JA, Esposito MP, Lanteri VJ, Albala DM, editors. Urologic Robotic Surgery. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Earle CC. Surveillance after Primary Therapy. In: Ganz PA, editor. Cancer Survivorship: Today and Tomorrow. New York, NY: Springer; 2007; pp 43–53.

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 Urologia Internationalis.

Blog post

Andrews R. Dinosaurs Saw The World In Shades Of Red [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Aug

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. Circumstances Surrounding the ASPJ Limited Production Decision. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Salinsky JL. Local disaster preparedness for the disabled population: Are we ready? 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

Weil E. A Hole in the Heart. New York Times. 2015 Jul;MM42.

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	Urologia Internationalis
Abbreviation	Urol. Int.
ISSN (print)	0042-1138
ISSN (online)	1423-0399
Scope	Urology