How to format your references using the Current Urology Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Urology 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. Kotok A. Science careers. Business financing for your research. Science. 2008;319:1549.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Podsiadlowski P, Justham S. Astronomy. Big bang points to stellar mix-up. Science. 2006;314:1551–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Cohen J, Rau A, Brüning K. Climate change. Bridging the Montreal-Kyoto gap. Science. 2009;326:940–1.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Plass R, Last JA, Bartelt NC, Kellogg GL. Nanostructures. Self-assembled domain patterns. Nature. 2001;412:875.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hartfuß H-J, Geist T. Fusion Plasma Diagnostics with mm-Waves. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

1. Oswalt TD, Bond HE, editors. Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems: Volume 2: Astronomical Techniques, Software, and Data. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sterer N, Rosenberg M. Breath Odors of Nasal and Pharyngeal Origin. In: Rosenberg M, editor. Breath Odors: Origin, Diagnosis, and Management. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 41–6.

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 Reports.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. New Transgenic Corn Can Guarantee Food Safety For Millions [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-transgenic-corn-can-guarantee-food-safety-for-millions/

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. Genetically Engineered Crops: USDA Needs to Enhance Oversight and Better Understand Impacts of Unintended Mixing with Other Crops. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Mar. Report No.: GAO-16-241.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mehmeti A. Intensive dramaturgical research facilitated the creation of the character Soran Saleen in “The Poetry of Pizza” [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. Feeney K. Chalkboard Special: Soup. New York Times. 2008 Mar 2;NJ8.

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 Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Urol. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1527-2737
ISSN (online)	1534-6285
Scope	General Medicine Urology