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

Randall, L. Extra dimensions and warped geometries. Science 296, 1422–1427 (2002).

A journal article with 2 authors

Stephenson, N. L. & Das, A. J. Comment on ‘Changes in climatic water balance drive downhill shifts in plant species’ optimum elevations’. Science 334, 177; author reply 177 (2011).

A journal article with 3 authors

Dicke, M., van Loon, J. J. A. & de Jong, P. W. Ecology. Ecogenomics benefits community ecology. Science 305, 618–619 (2004).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Cadena, C. D., Ricklefs, R. E., Jiménez, I. & Bermingham, E. Ecology: is speciation driven by species diversity? Nature 438, E1-2; discussion E2 (2005).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maier, H. Chemiker Im „Dritten Reich“. (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2015).

An edited book

Service Parts Management: Demand Forecasting and Inventory Control. (Springer, London, 2011).

A chapter in an edited book

Shah, J. P. Integrating Dry Needling with New Concepts of Myofascial Pain, Muscle Physiology, and Sensitization. in Integrative Pain Medicine: The Science and Practice of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Pain Management (eds. Audette, J. F. & Bailey, A.) 107–121 (Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2008).

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

Andrew, E. It’s a MOSQUITO TORNADO. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/its-mosquito-tornado/ (2014).

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. Review of Claims Settlement. (1973).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Skiold-Hanlin, S. Functional and Ecological Aspects of the Mucus Trails of the Freshwater Gastropod Elimia potosiensis. (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 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

Kenigsberg, B. Film Series. New York Times C21 (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