How to format your references using the Clinical Rheumatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Eisenstein M (2009) Neural circuits: Putting neurons on the map. Nature 461:1149–1152

A journal article with 2 authors

Sharp WD, Clague DA (2006) 50-Ma initiation of Hawaiian-Emperor bend records major change in Pacific plate motion. Science 313:1281–1284

A journal article with 3 authors

Doniger DD, Herzog AV, Lashof DA (2006) Climate change. An ambitious, centrist approach to global warming legislation. Science 314:764–765

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ahrens J, Amselem E, Cabello A, Bourennane M (2013) Two fundamental experimental tests of nonclassicality with qutrits. Sci Rep 3:2170

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Steland A (2012) Financial Statistics and Mathematical Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Yu F (2010) Three-Dimensional Model Analysis and Processing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Wu JX, Ro K, Yeh MW (2015) Jan Wolff and Israel L. Chaikoff. In: Pasieka JL, Lee JA (eds) Surgical Endocrinopathies: Clinical Management and the Founding Figures. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 21–24

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 Clinical Rheumatology.

Blog post

Andrew D (2017) The Tragic Story Of Soviet Genetics Shows The Folly Of Political Meddling In Science. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-tragic-story-of-soviet-genetics-shows-the-folly-of-political-meddling-in-science/. 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

Government Accountability Office (2008) Aviation Weather: FAA Is Reevaluating Services at Key Centers; Both FAA and the National Weather Service Need to Better Ensure Product Quality. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dickson B (2008) Yielding architecture: A manifesto for [urban + agri]culture. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

David Goodman J (2017) Police Issue Fewer Tickets for Minor Offenses Such as Public Urination. New York Times A19

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	Clinical Rheumatology
Abbreviation	Clin. Rheumatol.
ISSN (print)	0770-3198
ISSN (online)	1434-9949
Scope	General Medicine Rheumatology