How to format your references using the Clinical Genitourinary Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Genitourinary Cancer. 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 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

Astudillo Besnier P. Chile needs better science governance and support. Nature. 2014;511(7510):385.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gibson DG, Venter JC. Synthetic biology: Construction of a yeast chromosome. Nature. 2014;509(7499):168-169.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mora C, Rollo A, Tittensor DP. Comment on “Can we name Earth’s species before they go extinct?” Science. 2013;341(6143):237.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Herbig J, Kraemer T, Mark M, et al. Preparation of a pure molecular quantum gas. Science. 2003;301(5639):1510-1513.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nellist JG. Understanding Telecommunications and Lightwave Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Duch W, Kacprzyk J, Oja E, Zadrożny S, eds. Artificial Neural Networks: Formal Models and Their Applications – ICANN 2005: 15th International Conference, Warsaw, Poland, September 11-15, 2005. Proceedings, Part II. Vol 3697. Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Cherkaoui M, Capolungo L. Predictive Capabilities and Limitations of Molecular Simulations. In: Capolungo L, ed. Atomistic and Continuum Modeling of Nanocrystalline Materials: Deformation Mechanisms and Scale Transition. Springer Series in Materials Science. Springer US; 2009:81-116.

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 Clinical Genitourinary Cancer.

Blog post

Evans K. New Protection For Rosewood, The World’s Most Trafficked Wild Item. IFLScience. Published September 30, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-protection-for-rosewood-the-worlds-most-trafficked-wild-item/

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. The Guaranteed Student Loan Information System Needs a Thorough Redesign To Account for the Expenditure of Billions. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Miller DB. Nurse Educators’ Leadership Styles and Nurse Graduates’ Licensure Passage Rates. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix; 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

Gustines GG. A Gallery Of Heroes, Up for Sale. New York Times. November 17, 2009:C1.

In-text citations

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

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	Clinical Genitourinary Cancer
Abbreviation	Clin. Genitourin. Cancer
ISSN (print)	1558-7673
Scope	Oncology Urology

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