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. Mitchell WJ. Beyond the ivory tower. Constructing complexity in the digital age. Science. 2004;303:1472–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Moskovitz C, Kellogg D. Science education. Inquiry-based writing in the laboratory course. Science. 2011;332:919–20.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Cicerone RJ, Molina MJ, Blake DR. Retrospective. F. Sherwood Rowland (1927-2012). Science. 2012;336:170.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. McDonel P, Jans J, Peterson BK, Meyer BJ. Clustered DNA motifs mark X chromosomes for repression by a dosage compensation complex. Nature. 2006;444:614–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Clark M. Understanding Diabetes. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Heams T, Huneman P, Lecointre G, Silberstein M, editors. Handbook of Evolutionary Thinking in the Sciences. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Goto T, Ikehata A. Water Research by Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy. In: Ozaki Y, Kawata S, editors. Far- and Deep-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015. p. 55–76.

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 Urology Reports.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Mysterious Metal Object Crash Lands At A Jade Mine In Myanmar [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/mysterious-metal-object-crash-lands-at-a-jade-mine-in-myanmar/

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. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s System of Accounting for Accounts Receivable. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Oct. Report No.: FGMSD-77-89.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Nolan SA. Ecopoetry and ecocentrism: The poetics of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams [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. Murphy MJO. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times. New York Times. 2015 Mar 6;C29.

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

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