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

Schulz L. Psychology. Infants explore the unexpected. Science. 2015 Apr;348(6230):42–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nogués-Bravo D, Rahbek C. Ecology. Communities under climate change. Science. 2011 Nov;334(6059):1070–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

González-Pastor JE, Hobbs EC, Losick R. Cannibalism by sporulating bacteria. Science. 2003 Jul;301(5632):510–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Damodaram KJP, Kempraj V, Aurade RM, Rajasekhar SB, Venkataramanappa RK, Nandagopal B, et al. Centuries of domestication has not impaired oviposition site-selection function in the silkmoth, Bombyx mori. Sci Rep. 2014 Dec;4:7472.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Möller G. Geotechnik. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

Cahalane H, editor. Contemporary Issues in Child Welfare Practice. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Cherifi C, Labatut V, Santucci J-F. On Flexible Web Services Composition Networks. In: Cherifi H, Zain JM, El-Qawasmeh E, editors. Digital Information and Communication Technology and Its Applications: International Conference, DICTAP 2011, Dijon, France, June 21-23, 2011. Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011; pp 45–59.

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

Hamilton K. Five Phenomenal Science Stunts Done With Dry Ice [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Oct

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Telecommunications Readiness Critical, Yet Overall Status Largely Unknown. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Williams VD. Leadership behavior practice patterns’ relationship to employee work engagement in a nonprofit that supports the homeless. 2014

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

Lambert K. Santa on the Brain. New York Times. 2013 Dec;SR8.

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