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

Sanderson K (2007) Nanotech growing pains. Nature 446:963

A journal article with 2 authors

Zindl CL, Chaplin DD (2010) Immunology. Tumor immune evasion. Science 328:697–698

A journal article with 3 authors

Matsui K, Yoshida H, Ikuhara Y (2014) Nanocrystalline, ultra-degradation-resistant zirconia: its grain boundary nanostructure and nanochemistry. Sci Rep 4:4758

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liu W-J, Tian K, Jiang H, Yu H-Q (2013) Facile synthesis of highly efficient and recyclable magnetic solid acid from biomass waste. Sci Rep 3:2419

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Asif SZ (2010) Next Generation Mobile Communications Ecosystem. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Bates S (2005) SharePoint 2003 User’s Guide. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Potts KB (2013) Nutritional Ecology and Reproductive Output in Female Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Variation Among and Within Populations. In: Clancy KBH, Hinde K, Rutherford JN (eds) Building Babies: Primate Development in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective. Springer, New York, NY, pp 83–100

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

Andrew E (2014) Synthetic magnetic monopoles have been created in the lab. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/synthetic-magnetic-monopoles-have-been-created-lab/. 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 (1976) Legality of the Reported Use by the Energy Research and Development Administration of Certain Fossil Energy Funds for Contracts. 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

Graham SM (2017) Conditions that Prompt the Migrant Worker Population to Access Pre-Hospital Emergency Care in Place of Health Centers in Qatar. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Dorman JL (2017) What Kal Penn Loves About Being in Toronto. New York Times TR2

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