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

Comerio, M. C. Earthquake anniversary. Can buildings be made earthquake-safe? Science 312, 204–206 (2006).

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheetham, A. K. & Rao, C. N. R. Materials science. There’s room in the middle. Science 318, 58–59 (2007).

A journal article with 3 authors

Galbraith, C. G., Yamada, K. M. & Galbraith, J. A. Polymerizing actin fibers position integrins primed to probe for adhesion sites. Science 315, 992–995 (2007).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Sasaki, S., Nakamura, K., Hamabe, Y., Kurahashi, E. & Hiroi, T. Production of iron nanoparticles by laser irradiation in a simulation of lunar-like space weathering. Nature 410, 555–557 (2001).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ballast, D. K. Interior Detailing. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010).

An edited book

Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications: Volume 2. vol. 385 (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016).

A chapter in an edited book

Arslan-Alaton, I. & Olmez-Hanci, T. Advanced Oxidation of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds: Review on Photo-Fenton Treatment of Alkylphenols and Bisphenol A. in Green Technologies for Wastewater Treatment: Energy Recovery and Emerging Compounds Removal (ed. Lofrano, G.) 59–90 (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2012).

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

Hale, T. Ridiculously Handsome Sand Cat Spotted In Wild For First Time In 10 Years. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ridiculously-handsome-sand-cat-spotted-in-wild-for-first-time-in-10-years/ (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. The Concorde Supersonic Aircraft Trial Entry into Dulles International Airport. (1977).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McCarty, A. Measuring the impact of training in the implementation of project management information systems. (University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 2012).

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

Wogan, J. In Store; No Red, No Blue. New York Times ST3 (2017).

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