How to format your references using the Nature Reviews Rheumatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nature Reviews 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

Russo, E. Victims of success. Nature 422, 354–355 (2003).

A journal article with 2 authors

Christensen, J. H. & Christensen, O. B. Climate modelling: Severe summertime flooding in Europe. Nature 421, 805–806 (2003).

A journal article with 3 authors

Lill, J. T., Marquis, R. J. & Ricklefs, R. E. Host plants influence parasitism of forest caterpillars. Nature 417, 170–173 (2002).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Fusseis, F., Regenauer-Lieb, K., Liu, J., Hough, R. M. & De Carlo, F. Creep cavitation can establish a dynamic granular fluid pump in ductile shear zones. Nature 459, 974–977 (2009).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hollins, C. Basic Guide to Anatomy and Physiology for Dental Care Professionals. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK, 2012).

An edited book

GI Endoscopic Emergencies. (Springer, New York, NY, 2016).

A chapter in an edited book

De Pasquale, R., Dinotta, F. & Micali, G. Le lesioni elementari. in Le basi della dermatologia: Anatomia · Fisiologia · Lesioni elementari · Indagini diagnostiche · Correlazioni clinico-patologiche · Note di terapia (eds. Innocenzi, D., Fabbrocini, G., Monfrecola, G., Tosti, A. & Veraldi, S.) 83–115 (Springer, Milano, 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 Nature Reviews Rheumatology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. Astronomers Have Found Another Star That Has Extreme Dips In Light For Unknown Reasons. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-have-found-another-star-that-has-extreme-dips-in-light-for-unknown-reasons/ (2016).

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. Space Station: Status of Efforts to Determine Commercial Potential. (1999).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Barrett, B. T. Modernizing Copyright for Equitable Treatment in the Streaming Age. (Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 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

Sisario, B. A New Club in Brooklyn, as Promoter Rocks On. New York Times C1 (2016).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Nature Reviews Rheumatology
Abbreviation	Nat. Rev. Rheumatol.
ISSN (print)	1759-4790
ISSN (online)	1759-4804
Scope	Rheumatology