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.W. Fulweiler, Microbiology. Fantastic fixers, Science 326 (2009) 377–378.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Gan, T. Appenzeller, 2013 Visualization Challenge. Introduction, Science 343 (2014) 599.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Imaizumi, S.A. Kay, J.I. Schroeder, Circadian rhythms. Daily watch on metabolism, Science 318 (2007) 1730–1731.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Paludan, D. Schmid, M. Landthaler, M. Vockerodt, D. Kube, T. Tuschl, C. Münz, Endogenous MHC class II processing of a viral nuclear antigen after autophagy, Science 307 (2005) 593–596.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Tanwir, H. Perros, VBR Video Traffic Models, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

D. Brodowski, M. Espinoza de los Monteros de la Parra, K. Tiedemann, J. Vogel, eds., Regulating Corporate Criminal Liability, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.M.P.Q. Delgado, E. Barreira, N.M.M. Ramos, V.P. de Freitas, Conclusions and Perspectives, in: E. Barreira, N.M.M. Ramos, V.P. de Freitas (Eds.), Hygrothermal Numerical Simulation Tools Applied to Building Physics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 65–66.

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]

T. Hale, These Are All The Weirdly Specific Things Facebook Knows About You, 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, Railroad Safety: Status of Efforts to Improve Railroad Crossing Safety, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Goldstein, Murder in Colonial Albany: European and Indian Responses to Cross-Cultural Murders, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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]

A. Chozick, Jimmy Wales Is Not an Internet Billionare, New York Times (2013) MM28.

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