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

Livingston DM. Cancer. Complicated supercomplexes. Science. 2009 May 1;324(5927):602–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schmitz L, Motani R. Nocturnality in dinosaurs inferred from scleral ring and orbit morphology. Science. 2011 May 6;332(6030):705–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Manoharan VN, Elsesser MT, Pine DJ. Dense packing and symmetry in small clusters of microspheres. Science. 2003 Jul 25;301(5632):483–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mills EL, Pierce KA, Jedrychowski MP, Garrity R, Winther S, Vidoni S, et al. Accumulation of succinate controls activation of adipose tissue thermogenesis. Nature. 2018 Aug;560(7716):102–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). Supplemental Proceedings. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Ouda SAH. Management of Climate Induced Drought and Water Scarcity in Egypt: Unconventional Solutions. Zohry AEH, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. IX, 100 p. 30 illus., 25 illus. in color. (SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science).

A chapter in an edited book

Frost WN, Brandon CJ, Bruno AM, Humphries MD, Moore-Kochlacs C, Sejnowski TJ, et al. Monitoring Spiking Activity of Many Individual Neurons in Invertebrate Ganglia. In: Canepari M, Zecevic D, Bernus O, editors. Membrane Potential Imaging in the Nervous System and Heart. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 127–45. (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology).

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. El Niño Is Over, But Has Left Its Mark Across The World [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/el-ni-o-over-has-left-its-mark-across-world/

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. Pipeline Safety: Preliminary Information on the Office of Pipeline Safety’s Efforts to Strengthen Its Enforcement Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Jun. Report No.: GAO-04-875T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Robles S. Transient over-voltages generated by solar photovoltaic inverters [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Leland J. Gloria Steinem Never Stops. New York Times. 2016 Oct 7;MB1.

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

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