How to format your references using the Urologia Internationalis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Urologia Internationalis. 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

Hecht SS. Perspective: Tackling the real issues. Nature. 2011 Mar;471(7339):S18.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ward WR, Canup RM. Origin of the Moon’s orbital inclination from resonant disk interactions. Nature. 2000 Feb;403(6771):741–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gill RJ, Ramos-Rodriguez O, Raine NE. Combined pesticide exposure severely affects individual- and colony-level traits in bees. Nature. 2012 Nov;491(7422):105–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Vásquez V, Sotomayor M, Cordero-Morales J, Schulten K, Perozo E. A structural mechanism for MscS gating in lipid bilayers. Science. 2008 Aug;321(5893):1210–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Williams T, Turton V. Trading Economics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Shetgiri R. Practical Strategies for Clinical Management of Bullying. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Markovich NM, Krieger UR. Analysis of Packet Transmission Processes in Peer-to-Peer Networks by Statistical Inference Methods. In: Biersack E, Callegari C, Matijasevic M, editors. Data Traffic Monitoring and Analysis: From Measurement, Classification, and Anomaly Detection to Quality of Experience. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013; pp 104–19.

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 Urologia Internationalis.

Blog post

Luntz S. Fold A Piece Of Paper In Half 103 Times And It Will Be As Thick As The UNIVERSE [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Jul

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. Airline Competition: DOT’s Implementation of Airline Regulatory Authority. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Woods BA. The Perceived Efficacy of an Empowerment Model of Youth Development among Vermont Educational Leaders. 2006

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

Yablonsky L. Eye Spy. New York Times. 2007 Aug;6228.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Urologia Internationalis
Abbreviation	Urol. Int.
ISSN (print)	0042-1138
ISSN (online)	1423-0399
Scope	Urology