How to format your references using the Rheumatology citation style

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

Flicek P. Journal club. A computational geneticist looks at mechanisms of chromosomal evolution. Nature 2010;463:713.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rybczynski N, Reisz RR. Earliest evidence for efficient oral processing in a terrestrial herbivore. Nature 2001;411:684–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Blake RE, Chang SJ, Lepland A. Phosphate oxygen isotopic evidence for a temperate and biologically active Archaean ocean. Nature 2010;464:1029–32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Huang AL, Chen X, Hoon MA, Chandrashekar J, Guo W, Tränkner D, et al. The cells and logic for mammalian sour taste detection. Nature 2006;442:934–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DeMaris A. Regression with Social Data: Modeling Continuous and Limited Response Variables. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

Khine MS, editor. Science Education in East Asia: Pedagogical Innovations and Research-informed Practices. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Tian WC, Finehout E. Microfluidic Systems for Protein Separations. In: Finehout E, Tian WC, editors. Microfluidics for Biological Applications. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009. page 165–84.

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 Rheumatology.

Blog post

Luntz S. Whether You Respond To A Placebo Can Indicate If You’ll Respond To Antidepressants [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/placebo-response-indicates-antidepressant-reaction-embargo-1500-gmt/

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. Telecommunications: FCC’s Handling of Formal Complaints Filed Against Common Carriers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sosa Tzec O. Delightful Interactive Systems: A Rhetorical Examination. 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

Gustines GG. Archie Isn’t Dead. He’s Free. (For One Day.). New York Times2014;C34.

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	Rheumatology
Abbreviation	Rheumatology (Oxford)
ISSN (print)	1462-0324
ISSN (online)	1462-0332
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Rheumatology