How to format your references using the Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases. 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

Wineland D. Norman Ramsey (1915-2011). Nature 2011; 480: 182.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heilbron JL, Bynum WF. 1901 and all that. Nature 2001; 409: 13–16.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grutzendler J, Kasthuri N, Gan W-B. Long-term dendritic spine stability in the adult cortex. Nature 2002; 420: 812–816.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Baglione V, Canestrari D, Marcos JM, Ekman J. Kin selection in cooperative alliances of carrion crows. Science 2003; 300: 1947–1949.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jazar RN. Advanced Dynamics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

Godbole P, Wilcox DT, Koyle MA (eds.). Consent in Pediatric Urology. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Aime MD, Lioy A, Pomi PC, Vallini M. Security Plans for SaaS. In: Agrawal D, Candan KS, Li W-S (eds). New Frontiers in Information and Software as Services: Service and Application Design Challenges in the Cloud. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011, pp 81–111.

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 Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases.

Blog post

Evans K. Round The World Trip Planned For First Boat Powered Entirely By Green Energy. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/technology/round-the-world-trip-planned-for-first-boat-powered-entirely-by-green-energy/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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: FAA’s Efforts to Implement Recommendations to Improve Certification and Regulatory Consistency Face Some Challenges. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Anaya S. Animo clinician training program for detection and treatment of depression during pregnancy and postpartum depression in low income Latina women a grant proposal project. 2009.

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

Barron J. A Floor of a World Trade Center Tower Is Splashed With Graffiti, by Invitation. New York Times. 2017; : A20.

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	Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases
Abbreviation	Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis.
ISSN (print)	1365-7852
ISSN (online)	1476-5608
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology Urology