How to format your references using the International Brazilian Journal Of Urology citation style

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

Corsi P: Evolution pioneers: Lamarck’s reputation saved by his zoology. Nature. 2009; 461:167.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson GL, Lapadat R: Mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways mediated by ERK, JNK, and p38 protein kinases. Science. 2002; 298:1911–12.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li LY, Luo X, Wang X: Endonuclease G is an apoptotic DNase when released from mitochondria. Nature. 2001; 412:95–99.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lin Y, Yan Q, Kong C, Chen L: Polyethyleneimine incorporated metal-organic frameworks adsorbent for highly selective CO2 capture. Sci Rep. 2013; 3:1859.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Habib MAR: Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present. Oxford, UK, Wiley-Blackwell. 2010.

An edited book

[No Authors] Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services: Third International Conference, MobiCASE 2011, Los Angeles, CA, USA, October 24-27, 2011. Revised Selected Papers. vol. 95. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer. 2012; 95vol.

A chapter in an edited book

Baykal C, Yazganoğlu KD: Cutaneous Cysts. In: Yazganoğlu KD, editor. Clinical Atlas of Skin Tumors, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer. 2014, pp. 125–43.

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 International Brazilian Journal Of Urology.

Blog post

Carpineti A: We Have Found The Kraken! (According To The Internet). IFLScience. 2016. Available at. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/we-have-found-the-kraken-according-to-the-internet-/.

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: Evaluation of the Office of Economic Opportunity’s Performance Contracting Experiment. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office. 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tran LN: Low-cost vehicle remote diagnostic system. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

Lear S: Mirror, Mirror. New York Times. 2010:BR17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	International Brazilian Journal Of Urology
Abbreviation	Int. Braz J Urol
ISSN (print)	1677-5538
ISSN (online)	1677-6119
Scope	Urology

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