How to format your references using the Nature Reviews Rheumatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nature Reviews 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

Deweerdt, S. Aetiology: Crucial clues. Nature 513, S12-3 (2014).

A journal article with 2 authors

Miguel, M.-C. & Zapperi, S. Materials science. Fluctuations in plasticity at the microscale. Science 312, 1149–1150 (2006).

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu, A., Ding, C. & Tian, Y. A two-photon ratiometric fluorescence probe for cupric ions in live cells and tissues. Sci. Rep. 3, 2933 (2013).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Jenner, L. et al. Translational operator of mRNA on the ribosome: how repressor proteins exclude ribosome binding. Science 308, 120–123 (2005).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wagner, D. Trading ETFs. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012).

An edited book

Biology of Inositols and Phosphoinositides: Subcellular Biochemistry. vol. 39 (Springer US, Boston, MA, 2006).

A chapter in an edited book

Maréchal, L. Advances in Octree-Based All-Hexahedral Mesh Generation: Handling Sharp Features. in Proceedings of the 18th International Meshing Roundtable (ed. Clark, B. W.) 65–84 (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009).

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 Nature Reviews Rheumatology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Brain images reveal how we distinguish real and fake laughter. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-images-reveal-how-we-distinguish-real-and-fake-laughter/ (2014).

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. Aviation Safety: Proposals to Enhance Aircraft Tracking and Flight Data Recovery May Aid Accident Investigation, but Challenges Remain. (2015).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lynch, S. D. Distortion of low-frequency acoustic signals by interaction with the moving ocean surface. (University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 2008).

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, M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Candidate’s Record; The Matter of Trust: Clinton’s Big Burden. New York Times 124 (1992).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Nature Reviews Rheumatology
Abbreviation	Nat. Rev. Rheumatol.
ISSN (print)	1759-4790
ISSN (online)	1759-4804
Scope	Rheumatology