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]

Ceci C. Take concepts of chemistry out of the classroom. Nature 2015;522:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Fitzgerald KA, Golenbock DT. Immunology. The shape of things to come. Science 2007;316:1574–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bao H, Lyons JR, Zhou C. Triple oxygen isotope evidence for elevated CO2 levels after a Neoproterozoic glaciation. Nature 2008;453:504–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lee JE, Fusco ML, Hessell AJ, Oswald WB, Burton DR, Saphire EO. Structure of the Ebola virus glycoprotein bound to an antibody from a human survivor. Nature 2008;454:177–82.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bâzu M, Băjenescu T. Failure Analysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Ang L-M. Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks on Reconfigurable Hardware: Information Reduction Techniques. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Munier FL, Schorderet DF. Classification of Corneal Dystrophies on a Molecular Genetic Basis. In: Reinhard T, Larkin F, editors. Cornea and External Eye Disease, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 83–100.

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]

Taub B. Researchers Can Now Implant False Memories Into People’s Brains. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/researchers-can-now-implant-false-memories-into-peoples-brains/ (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. A Bibliography of Documents Issued by the GAO on Matters Related to: ADP, IRM and Telecommunications. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Whidby MA. Citation handling: Processing citation texts in scientific documents. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2012.

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]

Hu W. Taking Aim at Sidewalk Scaffolding, That Unwanted Neighbor. New York Times 2016:A21.

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