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

Highfield R (2000) ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Selling Science to the Public. Science 289:59

A journal article with 2 authors

Robertson MP, Scott WG (2007) The structural basis of ribozyme-catalyzed RNA assembly. Science 315:1549–1553

A journal article with 3 authors

Ferguson NM, Galvani AP, Bush RM (2003) Ecological and immunological determinants of influenza evolution. Nature 422:428–433

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Reissmann S, Hochleitner E, Wang H, et al (2003) Taming of a poison: biosynthesis of the NiFe-hydrogenase cyanide ligands. Science 299:1067–1070

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tagliani M (2009) The Practical Guide to Wall Street. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Galicki K, Simanca SR (2009) Riemannian Topology and Geometric Structures on Manifolds. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Tuniz C, Gillespie R, Jones C (2010) La vera età della Donna di Mungo. In: Gillespie R, Jones C (eds) I lettori di ossa. Springer, Milano, pp 31–56

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) Researchers Use Light To Recover ‘Lost’ Memories. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/researchers-recover-lost-memories/. 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) Continued Use of Costly, Outmoded Computers in Federal Agencies Can Be Avoided. 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

Pincolini R (2017) Latchkey girls. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Walsh MW (2015) A.I.G.’s Chief Says Insurer Is Reducing Its Risks. New York Times B3

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

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