How to format your references using the International Urogynecology Journal citation style

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

Heine V V (2000) Crystal structure. As weird as they come. Nature 403:836–837

A journal article with 2 authors

Fitch WT, Hauser MD (2004) Computational constraints on syntactic processing in a nonhuman primate. Science 303:377–380

A journal article with 3 authors

Shoemaker CJ, Eyler DE, Green R (2010) Dom34:Hbs1 promotes subunit dissociation and peptidyl-tRNA drop-off to initiate no-go decay. Science 330:369–372

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Paterson S, Vogwill T, Buckling A, et al (2010) Antagonistic coevolution accelerates molecular evolution. Nature 464:275–278

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levy G, Levin B (2014) The Biostatistics of Aging. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Strauß P-M (2010) Proactive Spoken Dialogue Interaction in Multi-Party Environments, 1st ed. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

de Bruijn H, ten Heuvelhof EF, in ‘t Veld R (2010) The Process Architect in Action: Making a Process Design. In: ten Heuvelhof E, in ’t Veld R (eds) Process Management: Why Project Management Fails in Complex Decision Making Processes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 59–78

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 Urogynecology Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) How Dangerous Is The Sodium Cyanide Found At The Chinese Explosion Site? In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1980) Debarment for Violation of Davis-Bacon Act. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Adams AA (2009) A study of the attitudes and opinions of southwest Missouri educators regarding the value and outcome of the performance based teacher evaluation process. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Saslow L (2006) Trash Law Is Meant To Deter Identity Theft. New York Times LI13

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	International Urogynecology Journal
Abbreviation	Int. Urogynecol. J.
ISSN (print)	0937-3462
ISSN (online)	1433-3023
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Urology