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. Hatfull GF. Microbiology. A tail of two specifi-cities. Science. 2002;295:2031–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Roeb M, Sattler C. Chemistry. Isothermal water splitting. Science. 2013;341:470–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Richardson CE, Kooistra T, Kim DH. An essential role for XBP-1 in host protection against immune activation in C. elegans. Nature. 2010;463:1092–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hale P, Makgoba MW, Merson MH, Quinn TC, Richman DD, Vella S, et al. Success hinges on support for treatment. Nature. 2001;412:272.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Burnett R, Brunstrom A, Nilsson AG. Perspectives on Multimedia. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

1. Yamashita S, Minato S-I, editors. Reversible Computation: 6th International Conference, RC 2014, Kyoto, Japan, July 10-11, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kim C, Song J, Lee H-W. Transceiver Design. In: Lee H-W, Song J, editors. High-Bandwidth Memory Interface. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 51–76.

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. O`Callaghan J. Flashes Of Light Beyond The Solar System Could Indicate Comet Impacts On Exoplanets [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/flashes-light-beyond-solar-system-could-indicate-comet-impacts-exoplanets/

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. Inadequate Monitoring of U.S. Merchant Tanker Fleet Hampers Mobilization Planning. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Jun. Report No.: LCD-79-215.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Aguilar M. Latina single mothers: Perspectives on parenting [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Jorden J. ‘Don Giovanni’ in Its Indelible Essence. New York Times. 2017 Aug 11;C5.

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