How to format your references using the Current Treatment Options in Rheumatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Treatment Options in 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

1. Vastag B. Assembly work. Nature. 2008;453:422–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jaeger J-J, Marivaux L. Paleontology. Shaking the earliest branches of anthropoid primate evolution. Science. 2005;310:244–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Zwieniecki MA, Melcher PJ, Michele Holbrook NM. Hydrogel control of xylem hydraulic resistance in plants. Science. 2001;291:1059–62.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Okada T, Shirai K, Yamamoto Y, Arai T, Ogawa K, Hosono K, et al. X-ray fluorescence spectrometry of asteroid Itokawa by Hayabusa. Science. 2006;312:1338–41.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sanders S. Seizures in Dogs and Cats. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Wang L, editor. Advances in Transport Phenomena 2011. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Agmon T, Sjögre S. Government Intervention to Promote Radical Ideas and VC Funds as a Functional Form to Facilitate Their Financing. In: Sjögren S, editor. Venture Capital and the Inventive Process: VC Funds for Ideas-Led Growth. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. p. 49–64.

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 Treatment Options in Rheumatology.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Survival Of Dust Disks Near Galactic Center A Mystery. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Status of the EF-111A Tactical Jamming System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Mar. Report No.: PSAD-78-32.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Turpin-Padberg S. Effects of Elementary Teacher Preparation and Support on Retention [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood 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

1. (nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Chechen Issues New Threat. New York Times. 2004 Jul 20;A6.

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 Treatment Options in Rheumatology
Abbreviation	Curr. Treatm. Opt. Rheumatol.
ISSN (online)	2198-6002
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