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

Baker S (2015) Infectious disease. A return to the pre-antimicrobial era? Science 347:1064–1066

A journal article with 2 authors

Yosef I, Qimron U (2015) Microbiology: How bacteria get spacers from invaders. Nature 519:166–167

A journal article with 3 authors

Song B-S, Noda S, Asano T (2003) Photonic devices based on in-plane hetero photonic crystals. Science 300:1537

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lin Y-J, Compton RL, Jiménez-García K, et al (2009) Synthetic magnetic fields for ultracold neutral atoms. Nature 462:628–632

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quinn JF (2013) Dementia. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford

An edited book

Madria S, Hara T (2015) Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery: 17th International Conference, DaWaK 2015, Valencia, Spain, September 1-4, 2015, Proceedings, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Wisløff U, Haram PM, Kemi OJ (2007) Genetic Vs. Acquired Fitness: Cardiomyocyte Adaptations. In: Stocchi V, Feo PD, Hood DA (eds) Role of Physical Exercise in Preventing Disease and Improving the Quality of Life. Springer, Milano, pp 61–81

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) Show Us Your Smarts: A Very Brief History Of Intelligence Testing. 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 (2015) Information Technology: Additional OMB and Agency Actions Needed to Ensure Portfolio Savings Are Realized and Effectively Tracked. 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

Krutsinger R (2014) Evaluation of Grassland Restoration Success in Illinois Using Indicators of Ecosystem Function. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Vecsey G (2010) Yes, Luis Castillo Is Still With the Mets. New York Times B13

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