How to format your references using the International Journal of Clinical Rheumatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Clinical 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

Tranquada JM. Physics. Cuprates get orders to charge. Science. 337(6096), 811–812 (2012).

A journal article with 2 authors

Custers R, Aarts H. The unconscious will: how the pursuit of goals operates outside of conscious awareness. Science. 329(5987), 47–50 (2010).

A journal article with 3 authors

Parr BT, Economou C, Herzon SB. A concise synthesis of (+)-batzelladine B from simple pyrrole-based starting materials. Nature. 525(7570), 507–510 (2015).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pomeranz Krummel DA, Oubridge C, Leung AKW, Li J, Nagai K. Crystal structure of human spliceosomal U1 snRNP at 5.5 A resolution. Nature. 458(7237), 475–480 (2009).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leleux B, van Swaay H, Megally E. Private Equity 4.0. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Schmitt D. Air Transport System. 1st ed. 2016. Springer, Vienna.

A chapter in an edited book

Yang S, Illner D, Teller K, et al. Statistical Shape Theory and Registration Methods for Analyzing the 3D Architecture of Chromatin in Interphase Cell Nuclei. In: Advances in Nuclear Architecture. Adams NM, Freemont PS (Eds.), Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 131–147 (2011).

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 International Journal of Clinical Rheumatology.

Blog post

Andrews R. Two Species Of North American Wolf Just Disappeared Overnight [Internet]. IFLScience (2016). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/two-species-north-american-wolf-disappeared-overnight/.

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

Government Accountability Office. Job Training Partnership Act: Labor Title IV Initiatives Could Improve Relations With Native Americans. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sanchez-Mejia ZM. Monsoon dependent ecosystems: Implications of the vertical distribution of soil moisture on land surface-atmosphere interactions. (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

Vecsey G. To Soccer Fan, Train Whistle Hits Perfect Pitch. New York Times, SP8 (2010).

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	International Journal of Clinical Rheumatology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Clin. Rheumtol.
ISSN (print)	1758-4272
ISSN (online)	1758-4280
Scope	Rheumatology

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