How to format your references using the Current Treatment Options in Rheumatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Treatment Options in Rheumatology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

1. Marx V. Neurobiology: Brain mapping in high resolution. Nature. 2013;503:147–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Vrabioiu AM, Mitchison TJ. Structural insights into yeast septin organization from polarized fluorescence microscopy. Nature. 2006;443:466–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Morse SS, Garwin RL, Olsiewski PJ. Public health. Next flu pandemic: what to do until the vaccine arrives? Science. 2006;314:929.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Roos CF, Chwalla M, Kim K, Riebe M, Blatt R. “Designer atoms” for quantum metrology. Nature. 2006;443:316–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Gao J. Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors for Circuit Design. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Sathiakumar S, Awasthi LK, Masillamani MR, Sridhar SS, editors. Proceedings of International Conference on Internet Computing and Information Communications: ICICIC Global 2012. New Delhi: Springer India; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Munoz D, Bagnell JA, Hebert M. Stacked Hierarchical Labeling. In: Daniilidis K, Maragos P, Paragios N, editors. Computer Vision – ECCV 2010: 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 5-11, 2010, Proceedings, Part VI. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 57–70.

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 Current Treatment Options in Rheumatology.

Blog post

1. O`Callaghan J. Uncertainty As ESA’s ExoMars Lander Fails To Phone Home [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/uncertainty-as-esas-exomars-lander-fails-to-phone-home/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Drug Abuse Control Program Activities in Okinawa. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972 Aug. Report No.: B-164031(2).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Faello JP. Is strong corporate governance associated with informative income smoothing? [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 2012.

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

1. Rosenberg E, Piccoli S. Police Shoot an Armed Man Wearing a Ballistics Vest. New York Times. 2017 Jan 5;A17.

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	Current Treatment Options in Rheumatology
Abbreviation	Curr. Treatm. Opt. Rheumatol.
ISSN (online)	2198-6002
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