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

Haag A (2007) Climate of opportunity. Nature 448:618–619

A journal article with 2 authors

Goncharenko I, Loubeyre P (2005) Neutron and X-ray diffraction study of the broken symmetry phase transition in solid deuterium. Nature 435:1206–1209

A journal article with 3 authors

Loh AN, Bauer JE, Druffel ERM (2004) Variable ageing and storage of dissolved organic components in the open ocean. Nature 430:877–881

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang Y, Liu Z, Zhao Y, et al (2014) Mesoscale eddies transport deep-sea sediments. Sci Rep 4:5937

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Soustelle M (2016) Ionic and Electrochemical Equilibria. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Berbari AE, Mancia G (2012) Special Issues in Hypertension. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

Shakarian P, Subrahmanian VS, Dickerson JP (2011) Geospatial Abduction with Adaptive Adversaries. In: Subrahmanian VS (ed) Geospatial Abduction: Principles and Practice. Springer, New York, NY, pp 93–146

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

Fang J (2014) Cracks in Pluto’s Moon Reveal Underground Ocean. In: IFLScience. 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 (2003) Transportation Security: Federal Action Needed to Help Address Security Challenges. 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

Meyertholen AN (2014) Blurring the lines: The invention of abstract in German literature since 1800. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University

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 C (2013) Decades Later, Revisiting a Death in the Family. New York Times A27B

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