How to format your references using the Journal of Pediatric Urology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Pediatric 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	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

[1]

Gibson G. Cancer: Directions for the drivers. Nature 2014;512:31–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bergink S, Jentsch S. Principles of ubiquitin and SUMO modifications in DNA repair. Nature 2009;458:461–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Burrone J, O’Byrne M, Murthy VN. Multiple forms of synaptic plasticity triggered by selective suppression of activity in individual neurons. Nature 2002;420:414–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Goldstein SL, Soffer G, Langmuir CH, Lehnert KA, Graham DW, Michael PJ. Origin of a “Southern Hemisphere” geochemical signature in the Arctic upper mantle. Nature 2008;453:89–93.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Pavé A. Modeling Living Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Bauche J. Atomic Properties in Hot Plasmas: From Levels to Superconfigurations. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sebestyén T, Varga A. A Novel Comprehensive Index of Network Position and Node Characteristics in Knowledge Networks: Ego Network Quality. In: Scherngell T, editor. The Geography of Networks and R&D Collaborations, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013, p. 71–97.

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 Pediatric Urology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Chandra X-ray Observatory Turns 15! IFLScience 2014.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Determination of Costs Relating to the Environmental Education Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

San Miguel AM. Lived experiences and perceptions on mentoring among Latina scientists and engineers. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 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

[1]

Chapman MM. A Year in the Slow Lane in a ’30 Ford. New York Times 2011:AU1.

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	Journal of Pediatric Urology
Abbreviation	J. Pediatr. Urol.
ISSN (print)	1477-5131
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Urology