How to format your references using the Translational Andrology and Urology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Translational Andrology and 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

Myers S. Forensics offers career opportunities for the Sherlock Holmes of the future--and the work is far from elementary. Nature. 2003 Feb 20;421(6925):872–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Milton AL, Everitt BJ. Neuroscience. Wiping drug memories. Science. 2012 Apr 13;336(6078):167–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Garofalo S, Maier ME, di Pellegrino G. Mediofrontal negativity signals unexpected omission of aversive events. Sci Rep. 2014 Apr 28;4:4816.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ishizaki K, Johzuka-Hisatomi Y, Ishida S, Iida S, Kohchi T. Homologous recombination-mediated gene targeting in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha L. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1532.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bell S. Lean Enterprise Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Bosch X, Ramos-Casals M, Khamashta MA, editors. Drugs Targeting B-Cells in Autoimmune Diseases. Basel: Springer; 2014. XI, 292 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color. (Milestones in Drug Therapy).

A chapter in an edited book

Pech S, Goehner P. Multi-agent Information Retrieval in Heterogeneous Industrial Automation Environments. In: Cao L, Bazzan ALC, Gorodetsky V, Mitkas PA, Weiss G, Yu PS, editors. Agents and Data Mining Interaction: 6th International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction, ADMI 2010, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 11, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 27–39. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Translational Andrology and Urology.

Blog post

Taub B. How Well You Do In School Depends More On Your DNA Than Your Determination, Study Finds. IFLScience. IFLScience; 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. National Airspace System: Summary of Flight Delay Trends for 34 Airports in the Continental United States (GAO-10-543SP, May 26, 2010), an E-supplement to GAO-10-542. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010 May. Report No.: GAO-10-543SP.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bemmel EP. A cost -effectiveness analysis of two community college baccalaureate programs in Florida: An exploratory study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University; 2008.

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

C. J. CHIVERS; Sophia Kishkovsky contributed reporting from Moscow for this article. Local Rebels Said to Join in Chechen Group’s Raids Across Border. New York Times. 2004 Jun 24;A7.

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	Translational Andrology and Urology
Abbreviation	Transl. Androl. Urol.
ISSN (print)	2223-4683
ISSN (online)	2223-4691
Scope	Reproductive Medicine Urology

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