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

Müller RD. Geophysics. Sedimentary basins feeling the heat from below. Science. 2010 Aug 13;329(5993):769–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

Laurance WF, Balmford A. Land use: A global map for road building. Nature. 2013 Mar 21;495(7441):308–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whitney D, Westwood DA, Goodale MA. The influence of visual motion on fast reaching movements to a stationary object. Nature. 2003 Jun 19;423(6942):869–73.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang D, Bushnell DA, Huang X, Westover KD, Levitt M, Kornberg RD. Structural basis of transcription: backtracked RNA polymerase II at 3.4 angstrom resolution. Science. 2009 May 29;324(5931):1203–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baker HK, Martin GS. Capital Structure and Corporate Financing Decisions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Kerikmäe T, Chochia A, editors. Political and Legal Perspectives of the EU Eastern Partnership Policy. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. VIII, 279 p. 8 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Combes C, Azema J. Inference of Markov Chain Models by Using k-Testable Language: Application on Aging People. In: Nguyen NT, Kowalczyk R, Fred A, Joaquim F, editors. Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XVII. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 89–106. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Even Educated Fleas Do It … But Is Animal Sex Spicier Than We Thought? Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/even-educated-fleas-do-it-animal-sex-spicier-we-thought/

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. Commerce Information Technology Solutions Next Generation Governmentwide Acquisition Contract. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Jun. Report No.: GAO-06-791R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beard AR. Absence Causation in Mechanistic Explanation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. A High-Tech Head Trip Through an Amazon Labyrinth. New York Times. 2016 Sep 30;C1.

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