How to format your references using the European Urology Supplements citation style

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

Butler JH. Better budgets for methyl halides? Nature 2000;403:260–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Vukusic P, Hooper I. Directionally controlled fluorescence emission in butterflies. Science 2005;310:1151.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Amorisco NC, Evans NW, van de Ven G. The remnant of a merger between two dwarf galaxies in Andromeda II. Nature 2014;507:335–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ligoxygakis P, Pelte N, Hoffmann JA, Reichhart J-M. Activation of Drosophila Toll during fungal infection by a blood serine protease. Science 2002;297:114–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Abner DJ. The ETF Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Cavallucci D, Guio R de, Cascini G, editors. Building Innovation Pipelines through Computer-Aided Innovation: 4th IFIP WG 5.4 Working Conference, CAI 2011, Strasbourg, France, June 30 – July 1, 2011. Proceedings. vol. 355. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Frost WN, Brandon CJ, Bruno AM, Humphries MD, Moore-Kochlacs C, Sejnowski TJ, et al. Monitoring Spiking Activity of Many Individual Neurons in Invertebrate Ganglia. In: Canepari M, Zecevic D, Bernus O, editors. Membrane Potential Imaging in the Nervous System and Heart, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 127–45.

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 Supplements.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. First “Wind Nebula” Seen Around a Magnetar. IFLScience 2016.

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. Mass Transit: Significant Federal Investment Is Not Adequately Protected. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Demenkoff JH. Evolution and emergence of the masculinities: Epiphanies and epiphenomena of the male athlete and dancer. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2014.

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]

Vecsey G. Memories Translate Well for Lendl. New York Times 2010:D3.

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 Supplements
Abbreviation	Eur. Urol. Suppl.
ISSN (print)	1569-9056
Scope	Urology