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]

May RM. Raising Europe’s game. Nature 2004;430:831–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rees DC, Howard JB. The interface between the biological and inorganic worlds: iron-sulfur metalloclusters. Science 2003;300:929–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ledingham KWD, McKenna P, Singhal RP. Applications for nuclear phenomena generated by ultra-intense lasers. Science 2003;300:1107–11.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Garrison JL, Kunkel EJ, Hegde RS, Taunton J. A substrate-specific inhibitor of protein translocation into the endoplasmic reticulum. Nature 2005;436:285–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Johnson Jr. MD WH, Moller MD JH. Pediatric Cardiology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Truong LD. Frozen Section Library: Genitourinary Tract. vol. 2. New York, NY: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yang S, Illner D, Teller K, Solovei I, van Driel R, Joffe B, et al. Statistical Shape Theory and Registration Methods for Analyzing the 3D Architecture of Chromatin in Interphase Cell Nuclei. In: Adams NM, Freemont PS, editors. Advances in Nuclear Architecture, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011, p. 131–47.

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. How Events In Panama Created The Modern World (Millions Of Years Ago). IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-events-panama-created-modern-world-millions-years-ago/ (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. Aviation: Issues Associated With the Theft of Stock Used to Create Airline Tickets. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lim K. An Inquiry of How Art Education Policies are Reflected in Art Teacher Preparation: Examining the Standards for Visual Arts and Art Teacher Certification. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 2017.

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. Chef’s Choice Is Rooting for Italy, Family Style. New York Times 2010: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	Journal of Pediatric Urology
Abbreviation	J. Pediatr. Urol.
ISSN (print)	1477-5131
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Urology