How to format your references using the Urology Video Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Urology Video Journal. 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]

R.J. Youle, Cell biology. Cellular demolition and the rules of engagement, Science 315 (2007) 776–777.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Fitoussi, B. Bourdon, Silicon isotope evidence against an enstatite chondrite Earth, Science 335 (2012) 1477–1480.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Adilakshmi, D.L. Bellur, S.A. Woodson, Concurrent nucleation of 16S folding and induced fit in 30S ribosome assembly, Nature 455 (2008) 1268–1272.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Tomita, H. Adesnik, M. Sekiguchi, W. Zhang, K. Wada, J.R. Howe, R.A. Nicoll, D.S. Bredt, Stargazin modulates AMPA receptor gating and trafficking by distinct domains, Nature 435 (2005) 1052–1058.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Daries, Nutrition for Sport and Exercise, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

M. Kachanov, I. Sevostianov, eds., Effective Properties of Heterogeneous Materials, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Altwaijry, M. El Bachir Menai, A Swarm Random Walk Algorithm for Global Continuous Optimization, in: J.-S. Pan, P. Krömer, V. Snášel (Eds.), Genetic and Evolutionary Computing: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, ICGEC 2013, August 25 - 27, 2013 - Prague, Czech Republic, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 33–43.

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 Urology Video Journal.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Big Data’s “Streetlight Effect’: Where And How We Look Affects What We See, IFLScience (2016).

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, Air Traffic Control: Voice Communications System Challenges Continue, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Martinez, An after-school program at the middle school level for at-risk youth, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

J. Gorman, The Bee Stalkers, New York Times (2016) D1.

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	Urology Video Journal
ISSN (print)	2590-0897
Scope