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]

Kato T. Self-assembly of phase-segregated liquid crystal structures. Science 2002;295:2414–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kourra CMBK, Cramer N. Catalysis: Gold unleashes the power of three. Nature 2015;517:440–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Taniguchi H, Lu J, Huang ZJ. The spatial and temporal origin of chandelier cells in mouse neocortex. Science 2013;339:70–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Premenko-Lanier M, Moseley NB, Pruett ST, Romagnoli PA, Altman JD. Transient FTY720 treatment promotes immune-mediated clearance of a chronic viral infection. Nature 2008;454:894–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dean JR. Practical Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy: Dean/Plasma. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Catoni F. The Mathematics of Minkowski Space-Time: With an Introduction to Commutative Hypercomplex Numbers. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kalinin AP, Pavlov AV, Alexandrov YK, Kotova IV, Patrunov YN, Pamputis SN. Image-Guided Minimally Invasive Modalities in Surgical Treatment of Parathyroid Diseases. In: Pavlov AV, Alexandrov YK, Kotova IV, Patrunov YN, Pamputis SN, editors. The Parathyroid Glands: Imaging and Surgery, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 125–43.

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]

Luntz S. Awesome Video Shows Sponges “Breathing” Out Dye. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/awesome-video-shows-sponges-breathing-out-dye/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Digital Television Transition: Information on the Implementation of the Converter Box Subsidy Program and Consumer Participation in the Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bentley KJ. Modern Public Market to Revitalize a Small Community. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2016.

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]

Vecsey G. Smile When You Say It: Same Old Jets. New York Times 2011:B25.

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