How to format your references using the Current Rheumatology Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Rheumatology Reports. 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

1. Blatt R. Push-button entanglement. Nature. 2000;404:231–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lyons TW, Reinhard CT. Early Earth: Oxygen for heavy-metal fans. Nature. 2009;461:179–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Simiyu K, Daar AS, Singer PA. Global health. Stagnant health technologies in Africa. Science. 2010;330:1483–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Striemer CC, Gaborski TR, McGrath JL, Fauchet PM. Charge- and size-based separation of macromolecules using ultrathin silicon membranes. Nature. 2007;445:749–53.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bech S, Zacharov N. Perceptual Audio Evaluation-Theory, Method and Application. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Farooqui AA. Glycerophospholipids in the Brain: Phospholipases A2 in Neurological Disorders. Horrocks LA, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Longaretti P-Y. Pressure-Driven Instabilities in Astrophysical Jets. In: Massaglia S, Bodo G, Mignone A, Rossi P, editors. Jets From Young Stars III: Numerical MHD and Instabilities. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 131–51.

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 Current Rheumatology Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Climate Change Is Causing Reindeer To Literally Shrink [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/climate-change-reindeer-literally-shrink/

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. Space Station: Russian Compliance With Safety Requirements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Mar. Report No.: T-NSIAD-00-128.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Green SW. The influence of satisfaction among African American males on community college choices [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 2015.

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. Eligon J. Violence in Milwaukee Was No Shock to Some. New York Times. 2016 Aug 15;A14.

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	Current Rheumatology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Rheumatol. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1523-3774
ISSN (online)	1534-6307
Scope	Rheumatology