How to format your references using the Current Bladder Dysfunction Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Bladder Dysfunction Reports. 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

1. Cohen J. Breakdown + Breakdown runners-up. Science. 2014;346:1450–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ceballos G, Ehrlich PR. Mammal population losses and the extinction crisis. Science. 2002;296:904–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Solomon BR, Hyder MN, Varanasi KK. Separating oil-water nanoemulsions using flux-enhanced hierarchical membranes. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5504.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Paik DH, Lee I-R, Yang D-S, Baskin JS, Zewail AH. Electrons in finite-sized water cavities: hydration dynamics observed in real time. Science. 2004;306:672–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Myers FR. Get the Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. Teschendorff AE, editor. Computational and Statistical Epigenomics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bajd T, Mihelj M, Munih M. Geometric Robot Model. In: Mihelj M, Munih M, editors. Introduction to Robotics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 57–71.

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 Current Bladder Dysfunction Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Russia has Released an Official Guide on how to Stay Safe... When Taking a Selfie. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools: Expenditures in Selected Schools are Comparable to Similar Public Schools, But Data Are Insufficient to Judge Adequacy of Funding and Formulas. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Sep. Report No.: GAO-03-955.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. 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

1. Dinardo K. Jim Gaffigan, on Traveling With Young Children. New York Times. 2015 Dec 6;TR3.

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	Current Bladder Dysfunction Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Bladder Dysfunct. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1931-7212
ISSN (online)	1931-7220
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology