How to format your references using the Revue du rhumatisme citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revue du rhumatisme. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Celotti A. Astronomy. Life after death. Science 2008;321:1164–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Segura-Totten M, Wilson KL. Virology. HIV--breaking the rules for nuclear entry. Science 2001;294:1016–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Charpinet S, Fontaine G, Brassard P. Seismic evidence for the loss of stellar angular momentum before the white-dwarf stage. Nature 2009;461:501–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Barlow J, França F, Gardner TA, Hicks CC, Lennox GD, Berenguer E, et al. The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems. Nature 2018;559:517–26.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hull B. Manufacturing Best Practices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Kumanogoh A, editor. Semaphorins: A Diversity of Emerging Physiological and Pathological Activities. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bond JS, Keiffer TR, Sun Q. Pericellular Proteolysis. In: Parks WC, Mecham RP, editors. Extracellular Matrix Degradation, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 75–94.

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 Revue du rhumatisme.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Exploiting Bacteria to Produce “Living Materials.” IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/exploiting-bacteria-produce-living-materials/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Analysis of NASA’s Fiscal Year 1983 Budget Request for Research and Development To Determine the Amount That Supports DOD’s Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Manjounes CK. An adult accelerated degree program: Student and instructor perspectives and factors that affect retention. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University, 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

[1]

Crow K. Park Service Makes a Pitch To Put a Pier to Work. New York Times 2003:147.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Revue du rhumatisme
Abbreviation	Rev. Rhum. Ed Fr.
ISSN (print)	1169-8330
Scope	Rheumatology