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. Stevenson DJ. Planetary science: Mission to Earth’s core--a modest proposal. Nature. 2003;423:239–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Freed AM, Lin J. Delayed triggering of the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake by viscoelastic stress transfer. Nature. 2001;411:180–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bai T, Pollard DD, Gao H. Explanation for fracture spacing in layered materials. Nature. 2000;403:753–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Rosenfeld D, Lahav R, Khain A, Pinsky M. The role of sea spray in cleansing air pollution over ocean via cloud processes. Science. 2002;297:1667–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Wolf EL. Nanophysics of Solar and Renewable Energy. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

1. Lamballais E, Friedrich R, Geurts BJ, Métais O, editors. Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation VI. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Majumdar TK, Howard DR. The Use of Dried Blood Spots for Concentration Assessment in Pharmacokinetic Evaluations. In: Bonate PL, Howard DR, editors. Pharmacokinetics in Drug Development: Advances and Applications, Volume 3. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011. p. 91–114.

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. Andrew D. Restricting Gay Men From Donating Blood Is Discriminatory [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/restricting-gay-men-from-donating-blood-is-discriminatory/

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. Problems Resulting From Management Practices in Recruiting, Training, and Using Non-High-School Graduates and Category IV Personnel. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976 Jan. Report No.: FPCD-76-24.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Johnson A. Instructional Practices in Physical Education Programs for Students with Disabilities [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral 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. Vecsey G. A Modest Proposal Says Colleges Should Educate. New York Times. 2010 Jan 15;B14.

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