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. Searls DB. The language of genes. Nature. 2002;420:211–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Carmeliet P, Jain RK. Angiogenesis in cancer and other diseases. Nature. 2000;407:249–57.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Budd GE, Butterfield NJ, Jensen S. Crustaceans and the “Cambrian explosion.” Science. 2001;294:2047.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Floyd K, Blanc L, Raviglione M, Lee J-W. Resources required for global tuberculosis control. Science. 2002;295:2040–1.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kühn V. Wireless Communications over MIMO Channels. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Ettinger DS, editor. Supportive Care in Cancer Therapy. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Yang Y, Jin S, Zuo Y, Xu J. Online Social Network Model Based on Local Preferential Attachment. In: Han W, Huang Z, Hu C, Zhang H, Guo L, editors. Web Technologies and Applications: APWeb 2014 Workshops, SNA, NIS, and IoTS, Changsha, China, September 5, 2014 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 35–46.

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. Watch An Enormous Jet Of Gas Erupt From A Massive Black Hole [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/galactic-puff-breaks-speed-light/

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. Aviation Security: Preliminary Observations on TSA’s Progress to Allow Airports to Use Private Passenger and Baggage Screening Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Nov. Report No.: GAO-05-126.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Nasrollahzadeh Y. Support group for caregivers of older adults affected by dementia: A grant proposal project [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

1. Hollander S. A Positive Approach To An Incurable Disease. New York Times. 1999 Nov 8;F3.

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

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