How to format your references using the Critical Reviews in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Critical Reviews in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (CRP). 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

Fekete DM. Developmental biology. Rocks that roll zebrafish. Science. 2003 Oct 10;302(5643):241–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Choi H, So PTC. Improving femtosecond laser pulse delivery through a hollow core photonic crystal fiber for temporally focused two-photon endomicroscopy. Sci Rep. 2014 Oct 15;4:6626.

A journal article with 3 authors

Venditti C, Meade A, Pagel M. Phylogenies reveal new interpretation of speciation and the Red Queen. Nature. 2010 Jan 21;463(7279):349–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ozaki K, Spolski R, Feng CG, Qi CF, Cheng J, Sher A, et al. A critical role for IL-21 in regulating immunoglobulin production. Science. 2002 Nov 22;298(5598):1630–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sóbester A, Forrester AIJ. Aircraft Aerodynamic Design. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Reguero M. Late Cretaceous/Paleogene West Antarctica Terrestrial Biota and its Intercontinental Affinities. Goin F, Acosta Hospitaleche C, Dutra T, Marenssi S, editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. VIII, 120 p. 49 illus., 17 illus. in color. (SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences).

A chapter in an edited book

Costantini A, Gutierrez E, Cacheiro JL, Rodriguez A, Gervasi O, Laganà A. Porting of GROMACS Package into the Grid Environment: Testing of a New Distribution Strategy. In: Taniar D, Gervasi O, Murgante B, Pardede E, Apduhan BO, editors. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2010: International Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, March 23-26, 2010, Proceedings, Part IV. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 41–52. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Critical Reviews in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014. Enceladus Now A Top Candidate For Extraterrestrial Life.

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. Managing Technology Change: Challenges and Opportunities for the United States Senate. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 Dec. Report No.: T-AIMD-96-25.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pyzdrowski JE. Experiences of Advisors/Mentors in Developing Leadership Emergence in a Post Conflict, Marginalized Society: A Phenomenological Study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington 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

Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times. 2017 Aug 31;C20.

In-text citations

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

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	Critical Reviews in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
ISSN (print)	0896-2960
ISSN (online)	2162-6553
Scope