How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Urology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Journal of 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	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

Kapan DD. Three-butterfly system provides a field test of müllerian mimicry. Nature. 2001 Jan 18;409(6818):338–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weller E, Cai W. Meridional variability of atmospheric convection associated with the Indian Ocean Dipole Mode. Sci Rep. 2014 Jan 7;4:3590.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cannistraci CV, Alanis-Lobato G, Ravasi T. From link-prediction in brain connectomes and protein interactomes to the local-community-paradigm in complex networks. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1613.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sun TQ, Ye Q, Wang XW, Wang J, Deng ZC, Mei JC, et al. Scanning focused refractive-index microscopy. Sci Rep. 2014 Jul 10;4:5647.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kim HG, Moreau N, Sikora T. MPEG-7 Audio and Beyond. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Audebaud P, Paulin-Mohring C, editors. Mathematics of Program Construction: 9th International Conference, MPC 2008, Marseille, France, July 15-18, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. X, 423 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 5133).

A chapter in an edited book

Lehn H, Simon LM, Oertel M. Climate Change Impacts on the Water Sector. In: Krellenberg K, Hansjürgens B, editors. Climate Adaptation Santiago. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 59–79.

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 Indian Journal of Urology.

Blog post

Felton J. Dear Class Of 2017: Bill Gates Reveals What He Wishes He Knew When He Started Out. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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

Government Accountability Office. Civilian Agencies’ Management and Use of Aircraft. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Feb. Report No.: T-GGD-88-15.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hartl SD. The role of culture in managing diversity: How culturally based heuristics differ in minority and non-minority managerial decision making [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 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

Hollander S. History in the Bronx Includes Naismith and Ali. New York Times. 2002 Dec 8;814.

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	Indian Journal of Urology
Abbreviation	Indian J. Urol.
ISSN (print)	0970-1591
ISSN (online)	1998-3824
Scope	Urology