How to format your references using the Current Urology citation style

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

Petherick A. Environment and genetics: Making sense of the noise. Nature. 2012 May;485(7400):S64-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ryan RJH, Bernstein BE. Molecular biology. Genetic events that shape the cancer epigenome. Science. 2012 Jun;336(6088):1513–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stine AR, Huybers P, Fung IY. Changes in the phase of the annual cycle of surface temperature. Nature. 2009 Jan;457(7228):435–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Matsumura R, Okamoto A, Node K, Akashi M. Compensation for intracellular environment in expression levels of mammalian circadian clock genes. Sci Rep. 2014 Feb;4:4032.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Seagal ZM, Surnina OM. Ultrasonic Topographical and Pathotopographical Anatomy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Fathi M, Holland A, Ansari F, Weber C, editors. Integrated Systems, Design and Technology 2010: Knowledge Transfer in New Technologies. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee S, Kang S. A Study on Guiding Programmers’ Code Navigation with a Graphical Code Recommender. In: Lee R, editor. Software Engineering Research,Management and Applications 2011. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012; pp 61–75.

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 Urology.

Blog post

Hale T. NASA Is Hiring Astronauts, And You Could Apply [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Nov

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. Corrective Actions Taken or in Process To Reduce Job Corps’ Vulnerability to Improper Use of Contracting Authority. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nunez FV. A study of the application of the concepts of Karen Horney in leadership development within the National Management Association of the Boeing Company. 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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Putin Removes Official. New York Times. 2002 Jan;A4.

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 Urology
Abbreviation	Curr. Urol.
ISSN (print)	1661-7649
ISSN (online)	1661-7657
Scope	Oncology Reproductive Medicine Urology