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

Krug RM. Influenza: An RNA-synthesizing machine. Nature. 2014 Dec;516(7531):338–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fan Z-Q, Chen K-Q. Stable two-dimensional conductance switch of polyaniline molecule connecting to graphene nanoribbons. Sci Rep. 2014 Aug;4:5976.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kühl G, Briggs DEG, Rust J. A great-appendage arthropod with a radial mouth from the Lower Devonian Hunsruck Slate, Germany. Science. 2009 Feb;323(5915):771–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Huang H, Zhang P, Qu XA, Sanseau P, Yang L. Systematic prediction of drug combinations based on clinical side-effects. Sci Rep. 2014 Nov;4:7160.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Subramanian MN. Polymer Blends and Composites. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Coecke B, editor. New Structures for Physics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Razeghi M, Lu Q, Bandyopadhyay N, Slivken S, Bai Y. High Power, Narrow-Linewidth, and Compact Terahertz Sources for Room Temperature Applications. In: Corsi C, Sizov F, editors. THz and Security Applications: Detectors, Sources and Associated Electronics for THz Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014; pp 75–89.

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. Here’s What Ursula Would Look Like If She Had Evolved In Different Ocean Environments [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Oct

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. Expenditures for Public Affairs Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mihalcin D. A comparison of the Children’s Functional Assessment Rating Scale and the Child Behavior Checklist used in a wraparound program. 2008

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

Kanter J. E.U. Official’s Move Fuels Talk of Merkel Challenge. New York Times. 2016 Nov;A6.

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

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