How to format your references using the Urological Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Urological Science (UROLS). 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

Polly PD. Evolution: stuck between the teeth. Nature 2013;497(7449):325–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jones W., Klin A. Attention to eyes is present but in decline in 2-6-month-old infants later diagnosed with autism. Nature 2013;504(7480):427–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

Merlin C., Gegear RJ., Reppert SM. Antennal circadian clocks coordinate sun compass orientation in migratory monarch butterflies. Science 2009;325(5948):1700–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Oliver WD., Yu Y., Lee JC., Berggren KK., Levitov LS., Orlando TP. Mach-Zehnder interferometry in a strongly driven superconducting qubit. Science 2005;310(5754):1653–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fernando A., Worrall ST., Ekmekcioǧlu E. 3DTV, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Brun R. High Temperature Phenomena in Shock Waves, vol. 7, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Capasso F. Controllo di qualità delle droghe vegetali. In: Capasso F, editor. Farmacognosia: Botanica, chimica e farmacologia delle piante medicinali, Milano: Springer; 2011, p. 39–45.

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 Urological Science.

Blog post

Hamilton K. Four little-known EU rules which help protect Britain’s environment. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/four-little-known-eu-rules-which-help-protect-britains-environment/. 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

Government Accountability Office. Job Access and Reverse Commute: Program Status and Potential Effects of Proposed Legislative Changes, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McCallum-Bonar C. Black Ashkenaz And the Almost Promised Land: Yiddish Literature and the Harlem Renaissance. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2008.

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

Crow K. The Greenhouse Stays. Some of the Greenery Goes. New York Times 2002:148.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Urological Science
Abbreviation	Urol. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1879-5226
Scope	Urology