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]

Colquhoun D. Science degrees without the science. Nature 2007;446:373–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rodriguez IB, Ho T-Y. Diel nitrogen fixation pattern of Trichodesmium: the interactive control of light and Ni. Sci Rep 2014;4:4445.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Daeschler EB, Shubin NH, Jenkins FA Jr. A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan. Nature 2006;440:757–63.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Rowsell JLC, Spencer EC, Eckert J, Howard JAK, Yaghi OM. Gas adsorption sites in a large-pore metal-organic framework. Science 2005;309:1350–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kuo SM, Lee BH, Tian W. Real-Time Digital Signal Processing. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Aranda B. Facelets Essentials: Guide to JavaServer^TM Faces View Definition Framework. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Choi H, Yeom K, Choi Y, Moon M. An Approach to Quality Achievement at the Architectural Level: AQUA. In: Gorrieri R, Wehrheim H, editors. Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems: 8th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, FMOODS 2006, Bologna, Italy, June 14-16, 2006. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006, p. 20–32.

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

[1]

Andrew D. Why Losing A Dog Can Be Harder Than Losing A Relative Or Friend. IFLScience 2017.

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. Export Controls: NASA Management Action and Improved Oversight Needed to Reduce the Risk of Unauthorized Access to Its Technologies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Obasi FI. Policy analysis of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Walsh MW. Puerto Rico Said to Face ‘Death Spiral’ Over Debt. New York Times 2016:B3.

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