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

Reif JH. Computing. Successes and challenges. Science. 2002 Apr;296(5567):478–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reik W, Kelsey G. Epigenetics: Cellular memory erased in human embryos. Nature. 2014 Jul;511(7511):540–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

James A, Pitchford JW, Plank MJ. James et al. reply. Nature. 2013 Aug;500(7463):E2-3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dominguez AA, Chiang HR, Sukhwani M, Orwig KE, Reijo Pera RA. Human germ cell formation in xenotransplants of induced pluripotent stem cells carrying X chromosome aneuploidies. Sci Rep. 2014 Sep;4:6432.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crane S. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Dao. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Klug C, Korn D, De Baets K, Kruta I, Mapes RH, editors. Ammonoid Paleobiology: From macroevolution to paleogeography. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Caelli W, Liu V, Longley D. Background to the Development of a Curriculum for the History of “Cyber” and “Communications” Security. In: Dodge RC, Futcher L, editors. Information Assurance and Security Education and Training: 8th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference on Information Security Education, WISE 8, Auckland, New Zealand, July 8-10, 2013, Proceedings, WISE 7, Lucerne Switzerland, June 9-10, 2011, and WISE 6, Bento Gonçalves, RS, Brazil, July 27-31, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013; pp 39–47.

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

Andrew E. New Study Reveals Most Influential Languages [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Dec

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. Reports Issued in August 1987. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wead MO. Fear and Doubt. 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

Hamblin J. Sick of Success. New York Times. 2017 Jan;SR1.

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

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