How to format your references using the Revista Brasileira de Reumatologia (Brazilian Journal of Rheumatology) citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revista Brasileira de Reumatologia (Brazilian Journal of 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

Kagan JC. Immunology. Sensing endotoxins from within. Science. 2013 Sep 13;341(6151):1184–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

van den Elsen JMH, Isenman DE. A crystal structure of the complex between human complement receptor 2 and its ligand C3d. Science. 2011 Apr 29;332(6029):608–11.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xi Z, Khoo CCH, Dobson SL. Wolbachia establishment and invasion in an Aedes aegypti laboratory population. Science. 2005 Oct 14;310(5746):326–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kuroda R, Endo B, Abe M, Shimizu M. Chiral blastomere arrangement dictates zygotic left-right asymmetry pathway in snails. Nature. 2009 Dec 10;462(7274):790–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Basset P, Blokhina E, Galayko D. Electrostatic Kinetic Energy Harvesting. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Obdržálek D, Gottscheber A, editors. Research and Education in Robotics - EUROBOT 2010: International Conference, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, May 27-30, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. VIII, 201 p. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 156).

A chapter in an edited book

MacGregor RW. Personalities Make the Difference. In: Straus J, editor. The Role of Law and Ethics in the Globalized Economy. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 1–7.

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 Revista Brasileira de Reumatologia (Brazilian Journal of Rheumatology).

Blog post

Hale T. The War On Science [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/short-film-war-science/

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. Rail Grant Oversight: Greater Adherence to Leading Practices Needed to Improve Grants Management. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 May. Report No.: GAO-16-544.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson TF. The Aircraft Electric Taxi System: A Qualitative Multi Case Study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 2017.

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

Leland J. Harry Belafonte Knows the Score. New York Times. 2017 Feb 3;MB1.

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	Revista Brasileira de Reumatologia (Brazilian Journal of Rheumatology)
Abbreviation	Rev. Bras. Reumatol.
ISSN (print)	0482-5004
ISSN (online)	1809-4570
Scope