How to format your references using the Revue du rhumatisme citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revue du rhumatisme. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Carrel L. Molecular biology. “X”-rated chromosomal rendezvous. Science 2006;311:1107–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Langlais B, Amit H. Planetary science. The past Martian dynamo. Science 2008;321:1784–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Nishida N, Katamine S, Manuelidis L. Reciprocal interference between specific CJD and scrapie agents in neural cell cultures. Science 2005;310:493–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Rooney N, McCann K, Gellner G, Moore JC. Structural asymmetry and the stability of diverse food webs. Nature 2006;442:265–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lacava A, Bogucki J, Bedrytski A, de Detrich M, Neil B. Professional Scala. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Prusky D, Gullino ML, editors. Postharvest Pathology. vol. 2. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Colombo J, Arora R, DePace NL, Vinik AI. Validation and General Evaluation of Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Monitoring. In: Arora R, DePace NL, Vinik AI, editors. Clinical Autonomic Dysfunction: Measurement, Indications, Therapies, and Outcomes, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 55–76.

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 Revue du rhumatisme.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Scientists Discover The Body Part Used To Sense The Earth’s Magnetic Field. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-discover-first-magnetic-sensor-animals/ (accessed October 30, 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. Aviation and the Environment: Impact of Aviation Noise on Communities Presents Challenges for Airport Operations and Future Growth of the National Airspace System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Johnson S. Searching for Identity and Truth: How Letter Writing Creates Identity in Victorian Literature. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2017.

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]

Vecsey G. In Armstrong, An Example For Woods. New York Times 2009:B14.

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	Revue du rhumatisme
Abbreviation	Rev. Rhum. Ed Fr.
ISSN (print)	1169-8330
Scope	Rheumatology