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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Eyre-Walker A. Evolution. Size does not matter for mitochondrial DNA. Science. 2006 April 28;312:537–538.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Barker S, Elderfield H. Foraminiferal calcification response to glacial-interglacial changes in atmospheric CO2. Science. 2002 August 2;297:833–836.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Mayle FE, Burbridge R, Killeen TJ. Millennial-scale dynamics of southern Amazonian rain forests. Science. 2000 December 22;290:2291–2294.
A journal article with 11 or more authors
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Li HX, Gao JE, Wu Y, Jiao ZB, Ma D, Stoica AD, Wang XL, Ren Y, Miller MK, Lu ZP. Enhancing glass-forming ability via frustration of nano-clustering in alloys with a high solvent content. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1983.

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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Madden BJ. Wealth Creation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.
An edited book
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Sirois FM, Molnar DS eds. Perfectionism, Health, and Well-Being. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.
A chapter in an edited book
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Gaševic D, Djuric D, Devedžic V. Modeling Spaces. In: Djuric D, Ga¿evic D, editors. Model Driven Engineering and Ontology Development. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. pp 157–173.

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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Carpineti A. Scientists Are Recreating Some Of The Most Extreme Events That Have Ever Occurred In The Universe. IFLScience [Internet]. 2016 April 25 [cited 2018 October 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/pushing-limits-experimental-astrophysics/

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. Information System Security in Federal Civilian Agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

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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O’Connell AM. Customer retention and leadership in the nonprofit healthcare organization. 2008.

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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Beard M. Lives in Ruins. New York Times. 2017 May 11:BR17.

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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