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]

Macilwain C. Wanted: Fraud-buster with political antennae. Nature 2014;507:275.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Karplus PA, Diederichs K. Linking crystallographic model and data quality. Science 2012;336:1030–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Meyer P, Saez L, Young MW. PER-TIM interactions in living Drosophila cells: an interval timer for the circadian clock. Science 2006;311:226–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Morioka S, Perry JSA, Raymond MH, Medina CB, Zhu Y, Zhao L, et al. Efferocytosis induces a novel SLC program to promote glucose uptake and lactate release. Nature 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bradford R. Is Shakespeare Any Good? Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Gruber P, Bruckner D, Hellmich C, Schmiedmayer H-B, Stachelberger H, Gebeshuber IC, editors. Biomimetics -- Materials, Structures and Processes: Examples, Ideas and Case Studies. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Segalov M, Lev-Ami T, Manevich R, Ganesan R, Sagiv M. Abstract Transformers for Thread Correlation Analysis. In: Hu Z, editor. Programming Languages and Systems: 7th Asian Symposium, APLAS 2009, Seoul, Korea, December 14-16, 2009. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 30–46.

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]

Andrew E. Blame It On Mum And Dad: How Genes Influence What We Eat. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/blame-it-mum-and-dad-how-genes-influence-what-we-eat/ (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. Telecommunications: GSA’s Difficulties Managing FTS 2000. 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]

Rodriguez RM. Experimental Evaluation of Cooling Effectiveness and Water Conservation in a Poultry House Using Flow Blurring Atomizers. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 2017.

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]

Greenhouse L. Court Details Opposition To Bias in Jury Selection. New York Times 2008:A16.

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