How to format your references using the Disability and Rehabilitation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Disability and Rehabilitation. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Hartzell HC. Physiology. CaCl-ing channels get the last laugh. Science. 2008 October 24;322:534–535.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Trinkle DR, Woodward C. The chemistry of deformation: how solutes soften pure metals. Science. 2005 December 9;310:1665–1667.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Krug AZ, Jablonski D, Valentine JW. Signature of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction in the modern biota. Science. 2009 February 6;323:767–771.
A journal article with 11 or more authors
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Cooke J, Sullivan M, Barton EJ, Bullock JS, Carlberg RG, Gal-Yam A, Tollerud E. Type IIn supernovae at redshift z approximately 2 from archival data. Nature. 2009 July 9;460:237–239.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Wiebe VJ. Drug Therapy for Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.
An edited book
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Paterson MS. Experimental Rock Deformation — The Brittle Field. Second, Completely Revised and Updated Edition. (Wong T-F, editor.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.
A chapter in an edited book
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Günther E, Kaulich S. Measuring Environmental Performance with EPM-KOMPAS Software Tool — Material Flow Analyses, Environmental Assessment and Success Control. In: Wagner B, Enzler S, editors. Material Flow Management: Improving Cost Efficiency and Environmental Performance. Sustainability and Innovation. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD; 2006. pp 57–90.

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 Disability and Rehabilitation.

Blog post
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Taub B. Study Shows Dogs Have Episodic Memory, Just Like Humans. IFLScience [Internet]. 2016 November 24 [cited 2018 October 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/study-shows-dogs-have-episodic-memory-just-like-humans/

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
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Government Accountability Office. Teacher Quality: Sustained Coordination among Key Federal Education Programs Could Enhance State Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Martinez J. Effective nonprofit collaborative networks. 2013.

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
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Kelly SR. Oil Under Our Noses. New York Times. 2012 March 21:A23.

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 titleDisability and Rehabilitation
AbbreviationDisabil. Rehabil.
ISSN (print)0963-8288
ISSN (online)1464-5165
ScopeRehabilitation

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