How to format your references using the Nature Reviews Urology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nature Reviews 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	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

Sykes, M. V. Planetary science. The planet debate continues. Science 319, 1765 (2008).

A journal article with 2 authors

Coura, J. R. & Viñas, P. A. Chagas disease: a new worldwide challenge. Nature 465, S6-7 (2010).

A journal article with 3 authors

Yin, Y., Manoury, B. & Fåhraeus, R. Self-inhibition of synthesis and antigen presentation by Epstein-Barr virus-encoded EBNA1. Science 301, 1371–1374 (2003).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Tian, P., Keusters, D., Suzaki, Y. & Warren, W. S. Femtosecond phase-coherent two-dimensional spectroscopy. Science 300, 1553–1555 (2003).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson, D. Visual Guide to Financial Markets. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012).

An edited book

Advances in Artificial Life: 8th European Conference, ECAL 2005, Canterbury, UK, September 5-9, 2005. Proceedings. vol. 3630 (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005).

A chapter in an edited book

Rhodes, B. & Goerzen, J. Network Data and Network Errors. in Foundations of Python Network Programming: Third Edition (ed. Goerzen, J.) 75–92 (Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2014).

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 Nature Reviews Urology.

Blog post

Davis, J. Brazil’s Largest Ever Dinosaur Rediscovered After 60 Years In A Cupboard. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/brazils-largest-ever-dinosaur-rediscovered-after-60-years-in-a-cupboard/ (2016).

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. Aviation Safety: Better Oversight Would Reduce the Risk of Air Taxi Accidents. (1992).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Edwards, G. Effects of at-home reading activities and parental involvement on classroom communication arts assessments: Focus on the high school level. (Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, 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

Hodgman, J. I Am Sorry for This Mess. New York Times SR8 (2017).

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	Nature Reviews Urology
Abbreviation	Nat. Rev. Urol.
ISSN (print)	1759-4812
ISSN (online)	1759-4820
Scope	Urology