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

Sapolsky, R. M. Behavior. Sympathy for the CEO. Science 333, 293–294 (2011).

A journal article with 2 authors

Glimcher, P. W. & Rustichini, A. Neuroeconomics: the consilience of brain and decision. Science 306, 447–452 (2004).

A journal article with 3 authors

Krüger, M., Schenk, M. & Hommelhoff, P. Attosecond control of electrons emitted from a nanoscale metal tip. Nature 475, 78–81 (2011).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Nash, M. S., Young, K. W., Challiss, R. A. & Nahorski, S. R. Intracellular signalling. Receptor-specific messenger oscillations. Nature 413, 381–382 (2001).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dorronsoro, B., Ruiz, P., Danoy, G., Pigné, Y. & Bouvry, P. Evolutionary Algorithms for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014).

An edited book

Explorations of the Life-World: Continuing Dialogues with Alfred Schutz. vol. 53 (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005).

A chapter in an edited book

Serrano Oswald, S. E. Social Resilience and Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Mutually Fertilizing Potential Seen in a Case Study in Mexico. in Regional Ecological Challenges for Peace in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia Pacific (eds. Oswald Spring, Ú., Brauch, H. G., Serrano Oswald, S. E. & Bennett, J.) 57–90 (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016).

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

Andrew, E. Gray Wolf Pack Spotted In California For The First Time In 90 Years. IFLScience (2015).

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. Security of Computer Systems. (1977).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Reese, S. R. Transitioning to the oboe: Methods and resources to assist in switching to the oboe from other woodwind instruments. (California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2012).

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

Wagner, J. Tough Architect of the Mets. New York Times D1 (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