How to format your references using the World Journal of Rheumatology citation style

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

Franklin AD. Electronics: the road to carbon nanotube transistors. Nature 2013; 498: 443–444.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anderson AK, Phelps EA. Lesions of the human amygdala impair enhanced perception of emotionally salient events. Nature 2001; 411: 305–309.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brooks HE, Carbin GW, Marsh PT. Increased variability of tornado occurrence in the United States. Science 2014; 346: 349–352.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Hoffmann DL, Standish CD, García-Diez M, Pettitt PB, Milton JA, Zilhão J, Alcolea-González JJ, Cantalejo-Duarte P, Collado H, de Balbín R, Lorblanchet M, Ramos-Muñoz J, Weniger G-C, Pike AWG. U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art. Science 2018; 359: 912–915.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sab K, Lebée A. Homogenization of Heterogeneous Thin and Thick Plates. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hostettler S, Gadgil A, Hazboun E (eds). Sustainable Access to Energy in the Global South: Essential Technologies and Implementation Approaches. Cham: Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Plesiewicz B, Wiszniowski J. Seismicity of Polish Part of the Western Carpathians in the Light of Recent Data. In: Guterch B, Kozák J, editors. Studies of Historical Earthquakes in Southern Poland: Outer Western Carpathian Earthquake of December 3, 1786, and First Macroseismic Maps in 1858-1901. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015: 103–118.

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 Rheumatology.

Blog post

Luntz S. Bridge Linking Magellanic Clouds Has Magnetic Field. IFLScience. 2017. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/bridge-linking-magellanic-clouds-has-magnetic-field/

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. [Comments on Panama Canal Revolving Fund Act]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Goldberg DS. Poly (amido amine) dendrimers: Transepithelial transport mechanisms and applications in oral drug delivery. 2010.

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

Pilon M. I.O.C. Reinstates India. New York Times. 2014; : B18.

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 Rheumatology
ISSN (online)	2220-3214
Scope