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]

L. Melton, Imaging: the big picture, Nature. 437 (2005) 775–779.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F.R. O’Keefe, L.M. Chiappe, Viviparity and K-selected life history in a Mesozoic marine plesiosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia), Science. 333 (2011) 870–873.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Achlioptas, A. Naor, Y. Peres, Rigorous location of phase transitions in hard optimization problems, Nature. 435 (2005) 759–764.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Yu, H. Zhang, Y. Wang, S. Han, H. Yang, X. Xu, Z. Wang, V. Petrov, J. Wang, Optical orbital angular momentum conservation during the transfer process from plasmonic vortex lens to light, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3191.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.A. Schwartz, M.G. Carew, T. Maksimenko, Micro Markets Workbook, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

T. Drugman, T. Dutoit, eds., Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing: 6th International Conference, NOLISP 2013, Mons, Belgium, June 19-21, 2013. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Rijken, R. Römkens, Trafficking for Sexual Purposes as a Globalized Shadow Economy: Human Security as the Tool to Facilitate a Human Rights Based Approach, in: R. Letschert, J. van Dijk (Eds.), The New Faces of Victimhood: Globalization, Transnational Crimes and Victim Rights, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011: pp. 73–98.

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]

K. Evans, EPA Finds 97% Of Endangered Species In US Threatened By Two Common Pesticides, 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, Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Card Reader Pilot Results Are Unreliable; Security Benefits Should Be Reassessed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V.A. Hoch, The Effects of Systematic Reinforcement on Academic Performance in Precision Teaching: An Investigation of Acquisition, Retention, and Endurance, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2014.

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]

M.J.O. Murphy, Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times, New York Times. (2015) C25.

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