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

Vousden KH (2005) Apoptosis. p53 and PUMA: a deadly duo. Science 309:1685–1686

A journal article with 2 authors

van den Heuvel MGL, Dekker C (2007) Motor proteins at work for nanotechnology. Science 317:333–336

A journal article with 3 authors

Biswas AK, Atulasimha J, Bandyopadhyay S (2014) An error-resilient non-volatile magneto-elastic universal logic gate with ultralow energy-delay product. Sci Rep 4:7553

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Spengler D, van Roermund HLM, Drury MR, et al (2006) Deep origin and hot melting of an Archaean orogenic peridotite massif in Norway. Nature 440:913–917

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brenner IR (2010) How to Survive a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Yang SR, Healey K (2016) Gothic Landscapes: Changing Eras, Changing Cultures, Changing Anxieties. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Caspi P, Benveniste A, Lublinerman R, Tripakis S (2009) Actors without Directors: A Kahnian View of Heterogeneous Systems. In: Majumdar R, Tabuada P (eds) Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control: 12th International Conference, HSCC 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 13-15, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 46–60

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

Taub B (2016) Robots May Soon Be Able To Feel Pain. 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 (1995) Tongass Timber Reform Act: Implementation of the Act’s Contract Modification Requirements. 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

Shetter RM (2012) Assaulting the littorals: The development and evolution of a dedicated American amphibious assault force. 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

Murphy MJO (2016) Friday File: A Household of April Fool’s Jokes. New York Times C27

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

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