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

Gaffan D. Neuroscience. Widespread cortical networks underlie memory and attention. Science. 2005 Sep 30;309(5744):2172–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Montgomery DR, Manga M. Streamflow and water well responses to earthquakes. Science. 2003 Jun 27;300(5628):2047–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Solomon BR, Hyder MN, Varanasi KK. Separating oil-water nanoemulsions using flux-enhanced hierarchical membranes. Sci Rep. 2014 Jul 1;4:5504.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Barderas R, Villar-Vázquez R, Fernández-Aceñero MJ, Babel I, Peláez-García A, Torres S, et al. Sporadic colon cancer murine models demonstrate the value of autoantibody detection for preclinical cancer diagnosis. Sci Rep. 2013 Oct 15;3:2938.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Purkis S, Klemas V. Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Altmann J, Silaghi GC, Rana OF, editors. Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services: 12th International Conference, GECON 2015, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 15-17, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XV, 323 p. 82 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 9512).

A chapter in an edited book

Chatterjee S, Menezes A, Ustaoglu B. Combined Security Analysis of the One- and Three-Pass Unified Model Key Agreement Protocols. In: Gong G, Gupta KC, editors. Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2010: 11th International Conference on Cryptology in India, Hyderabad, India, December 12-15, 2010 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 49–68. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

Taub B. How Long Do Illegal Drugs Stay In Your System? IFLScience. IFLScience; 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. Resources, Community, and Economic Development Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Jan. Report No.: AA-96-30(1).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Myers RE. Moderating the effectiveness of messages to promote physical activity in type 2 diabetes [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2010.

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

Mazzetti M, Goldman A, Schmidt MS. Under Trump, Shell of a Force In Syria Swiftly Lost C.I.A. Aid. New York Times. 2017 Aug 2;A1.

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

Research and Writing Guides