How to format your references using the Journal of Endourology, Part B: Videourology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Endourology, Part B: Videourology (VID). 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

Raven K. How sexual harassment changed the way I work. Nature 2013;504(7478):9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lowry AR, Pérez-Gussinyé M. The role of crustal quartz in controlling Cordilleran deformation. Nature 2011;471(7338):353–357.

A journal article with 3 authors

Anderson JS, Rittle J, Peters JC. Catalytic conversion of nitrogen to ammonia by an iron model complex. Nature 2013;501(7465):84–87.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

de Montjoye Y-A, Hidalgo CA, Verleysen M, et al. Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility. Sci Rep 2013;3:1376.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnes BK. Exercising Influence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ; 2015.

An edited book

Hinchey M, Coyle L, (eds). Conquering Complexity. Springer: London; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Marques SPC, Creus GJ. Laplace Transform Solutions. In: Computational Viscoelasticity. (Creus GJ. ed). SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2012; pp. 37–49.

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 Journal of Endourology, Part B: Videourology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Clouds Hide The Water On Hot Exoplanets. IFLScience; 2016. [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. HHS-Supported Research on Violence Prevention. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kasun KK. Economic Effectiveness of Physician Organizational Models in a California Integrated Healthcare System. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ; 2010.

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

Neuman W, Romero S. Allies Resist U.S. Strategy in Drug Fight. New York Times 2015;A1.

In-text citations

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

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	Journal of Endourology, Part B: Videourology
ISSN (online)	2151-1136
Scope