How to format your references using the European Urology citation style

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

[1]

Smaglik P. The skills hunt. Nature 2004;431:109.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Jia T, Pamer EG. Immunology. Dispensable but not irrelevant. Science 2009;325:549–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Glasauer S, Langley S, Beveridge TJ. Intracellular iron minerals in a dissimilatory iron-reducing bacterium. Science 2002;295:117–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wilkinson JJ, Stoffell B, Wilkinson CC, Jeffries TE, Appold MS. Anomalously metal-rich fluids form hydrothermal ore deposits. Science 2009;323:764–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Çapin TK, Pandzic IS, Magnenat-Thalmann N, Thalmann D. Avatars in Networked Virtual Environments. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2001.

An edited book

[1]

Rehm G, Uszkoreit H, editors. The Greek Language in the Digital Age. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fridkin V, Ducharme S. Ultrathin Ferroelectric Films. In: Ducharme S, editor. Ferroelectricity at the Nanoscale: Basics and Applications, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014, p. 29–65.

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 European Urology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Ten Things You Really Should Know About Ebola. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ten-things-you-really-should-know-about-ebola/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Relationship of Contractor and Grantee ADP Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Nattress DA. Benefits of single-gender education: Perceptions of middle grade teachers. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 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]

Van Gelder SKC by L. Arts, Briefly; Saving Shostakovich. New York Times 2004:E2.

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	European Urology
Abbreviation	Eur. Urol.
ISSN (print)	0302-2838
Scope	Urology