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

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

Nielsen J (2015) BIOENGINEERING. Yeast cell factories on the horizon. Science 349:1050–1051

A journal article with 2 authors

Ohmura A, Wild M (2002) Climate change. Is the hydrological cycle accelerating? Science 298:1345–1346

A journal article with 3 authors

Nateri AS, Spencer-Dene B, Behrens A (2005) Interaction of phosphorylated c-Jun with TCF4 regulates intestinal cancer development. Nature 437:281–285

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Allen MR, Stott PA, Mitchell JF, et al (2000) Quantifying the uncertainty in forecasts of anthropogenic climate change. Nature 407:617–620

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson RJ, Groundwater PW, Todd A, Worsley AJ (2012) Antibacterial Agents. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Athreya KB (2006) Measure Theory and Probability Theory. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Saito H (2013) Mast Cells. In: Önerci TM (ed) Nasal Physiology and Pathophysiology of Nasal Disorders. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 69–75

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 World Journal of Urology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Are You Overweight? The Clue’s In Your Poo. In: IFLScience. 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 (2003) Financial Management Systems: Core Financial Systems at the 24 Chief Financial Officers Act Agencies. 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

Lim T (2017) Information-Theoretic Aspects of Signal Analysis and Reconstruction. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Yablonsky L (2010) World’s Fastest Canvas. New York Times ST3

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	World Journal of Urology
Abbreviation	World J. Urol.
ISSN (print)	0724-4983
ISSN (online)	1433-8726
Scope	Urology