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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Central European 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

McCormick S. Plant science. Reproductive dialog. Science. 2007 Aug 3;317(5838):606–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pontzen A, Governato F. Cold dark matter heats up. Nature. 2014 Feb 13;506(7487):171–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grenfell BT, Bjørnstad ON, Kappey J. Travelling waves and spatial hierarchies in measles epidemics. Nature. 2001 Dec 13;414(6865):716–23.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang H, Chen X, Wang J, Guang W, Han W, Zhang H, et al. EGR1 decreases the malignancy of human non-small cell lung carcinoma by regulating KRT18 expression. Sci Rep. 2014 Jul 3;4:5416.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ocic O. Oil Refineries in the 21st Century. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

Becker R, Kerkhoffs GMMJ, E. Gelber P, Denti M, Seil R, editors. ESSKA Instructional Course Lecture Book: Barcelona 2016. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016. XV, 239 p. 109 illus., 74 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Berzosa M, Wallace MB. Advanced Endoscopic Imaging in the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract. In: Fukami N, editor. Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection: Principles and Practice. New York, NY: Springer; 2015. p. 41–9.

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 Central European Journal of Urology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Two Nearby Earth-Sized Exoplanets Confirmed To Be Rocky. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/two-nearby-earthsized-exoplanets-confirmed-to-be-rocky/

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. Why NASA’s Property Accounting and Control System Should Be Improved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976 Jan. Report No.: FGMSD-75-27.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Haneef NJ. A synthesized conceptual framework for the design of user interfaces of interactive information products [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2009.

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

Brantley B. Clash of the Titans. New York Times. 2017 Oct 2;C5.

In-text citations

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

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	Central European Journal of Urology
Abbreviation	Cent. European J. Urol.
ISSN (print)	2080-4806
ISSN (online)	2080-4873
Scope	General Medicine