How to format your references using the World Journal of Urology citation style

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

Szoka F (2008) Molecular biology. The art of assembly. Science 319:578–579

A journal article with 2 authors

Louf R, Barthelemy M (2014) How congestion shapes cities: from mobility patterns to scaling. Sci Rep 4:5561

A journal article with 3 authors

Buehler MJ, Abraham FF, Gao H (2003) Hyperelasticity governs dynamic fracture at a critical length scale. Nature 426:141–146

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Stephenson AE, DeYoreo JJ, Wu L, et al (2008) Peptides enhance magnesium signature in calcite: insights into origins of vital effects. Science 322:724–727

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Milne D (2012) The Psychology of Retirement. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Hartmann S, Zhou X, Kirchberg M (2008) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2008 Workshops: WISE 2008 International Workshops, Auckland, New Zealand, September 1-4, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Xu H, Buck SM, Kopelman R, et al (2005) Fluorescent Pebble Nano-Sensors and Nanoexplorers for Real-Time Intracellular and Biomedical Applications. In: Geddes CD, Lakowicz JR (eds) Advanced Concepts in Fluorescence Sensing: Part B: Macromolecular Sensing. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 69–126

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 World Journal of Urology.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Watch: Snake Vomits Up Another LIVE SNAKE After Being Startled. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/snake-swallows-then-regurgitates-fellow-snake-amazingly-still-alive/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2012) Health Information Technology: CMS Took Steps to Improve Its Beneficiary Eligibility Verification System. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kong W (2010) The Role of MicroRNA-155 in Human Breast Cancer. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Kelly M (1993) David Gergen, Master of THE GAME. New York Times 664

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	World Journal of Urology
Abbreviation	World J. Urol.
ISSN (print)	0724-4983
ISSN (online)	1433-8726
Scope	Urology