How to format your references using the Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations. 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

[1]

Milburn GJ. Physics. Quantum measurement and control of single spins in diamond. Science 2010;330:1188–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pearse A-M, Swift K. Allograft theory: transmission of devil facial-tumour disease. Nature 2006;439:549.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Román-Leshkov Y, Chheda JN, Dumesic JA. Phase modifiers promote efficient production of hydroxymethylfurfural from fructose. Science 2006;312:1933–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Xu X, Cheng C, Xin H, Lei H, Li B. Controllable orientation of single silver nanowire using two fiber probes. Sci Rep 2014;4:3989.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lin XS. Introductory Stochastic Analysis for Finance and Insurance: Lin/Introductory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Donkelaar HJT. Clinical Neuroembryology: Development and Developmental Disorders of the Human Central Nervous System. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Procopiou M, Meier CA. Evaluation of Thyroid Nodules. In: Oertli D, Udelsman R, editors. Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007, p. 45–60.

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 Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations.

Blog post

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Andrew E. Scientists Take Step Forward In Quest To Convert Carbon Dioxide To Biofuel. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/scientists-take-step-forward-quest-convert-carbon-dioxide-biofuel/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Selected Contracts, Purchase Orders, and Grants Awarded to Indian Tribes and Organizations During Fiscal Year 1971. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Eller LS. Social media as avenue for personal learning for educators: Personal learning networks encourage application of knowledge and skills. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2012.

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

[1]

Gurley G. Since 1956, a Sensitive Guy. New York Times 2012:ST2.

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	Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations
Abbreviation	Urol. Oncol.
ISSN (print)	1078-1439
Scope	Oncology Urology