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

Willig, M. R. Ecology. Biodiversity and productivity. Science 333, 1709–1710 (2011).

A journal article with 2 authors

Rolff, J. & Siva-Jothy, M. T. Invertebrate ecological immunology. Science 301, 472–475 (2003).

A journal article with 3 authors

He, C. Y., Pypaert, M. & Warren, G. Golgi duplication in Trypanosoma brucei requires Centrin2. Science 310, 1196–1198 (2005).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Dulieu, F. et al. How micron-sized dust particles determine the chemistry of our Universe. Sci. Rep. 3, 1338 (2013).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paul, C. R. Transmission Lines in Digital Systems for EMC Practitioners. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011).

An edited book

Disaster Management: Enabling Resilience. (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015).

A chapter in an edited book

Xu, J., Zhang, Q. & Huang, X. Personalized Hashtag Suggestion for Microblogs. in Social Media Processing: 4th National Conference, SMP 2015, Guangzhou, China, November 16-17, 2015, Proceedings (eds. Zhang, X., Sun, M., Wang, Z. & Huang, X.) 38–50 (Springer, Singapore, 2015).

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

Hamilton, K. Planet Earth II: Why Most Animals Can’t Hack City Living. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/planet-earth-why-most-animals-cant-hack-city-living/ (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 Noise: A National Policy Is Needed. (1990).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Prakash, A. Empire on the Seine: Surveillance, Citizenship, and North African Migrants in Paris (1925–1975). (Columbia University, New York, NY, 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

Cowen, T. From Colonial India, Lessons for a Changed Economy. New York Times BU4 (2014).

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