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

Hamburg MA (2012) Science and regulation. FDA’s approach to regulation of products of nanotechnology. Science 336:299–300

A journal article with 2 authors

Medema JP, Vermeulen L (2011) Microenvironmental regulation of stem cells in intestinal homeostasis and cancer. Nature 474:318–326

A journal article with 3 authors

Stunnenberg HG, Vermeulen M, Atlasi Y (2015) Developmental biology. A Me6Age for pluripotency. Science 347:614–615

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Eerenstein W, Morrison FD, Dho J, et al (2005) Comment on “Epitaxial BiFeO3 multiferroic thin film heterostructures.” Science 307:1203; author reply 1203

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Briffaut J-P (2015) E-Enabled Operations Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sacco GM, Tzitzikas Y (2009) Dynamic Taxonomies and Faceted Search: Theory, Practice, and Experience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Takuma T, Techaumnat B (2010) Electric Field in High-Voltage Equipment. In: Techaumnat B (ed) Electric Fields in Composite Dielectrics and their Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 71–86

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

Davis J (2017) “Last” African Dinosaur Before They Went Extinct Discovered In Morocco. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-last-african-dinosaur-before-the-extinction-discovered-in-morocco/. 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 (2014) James Webb Space Telescope: Project Facing Increased Schedule Risk with Significant Work Remaining. 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

Brown CE (2013) Sources for the reevaluation of George Frederick Root’s career: The autobiography & a secular cantata. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Cooper M (2017) 6 Composers Chosen For Miller Portraits. New York Times C3

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