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]

Schenk PM. Thickness constraints on the icy shells of the galilean satellites from a comparison of crater shapes. Nature 2002;417:419–21.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Raviv U, Klein J. Fluidity of bound hydration layers. Science 2002;297:1540–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mora C, Danovaro R, Loreau M. Alternative hypotheses to explain why biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships are concave-up in some natural ecosystems but concave-down in manipulative experiments. Sci Rep 2014;4:5427.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hansen SG, Powers CJ, Richards R, Ventura AB, Ford JC, Siess D, et al. Evasion of CD8+ T cells is critical for superinfection by cytomegalovirus. Science 2010;328:102–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wagner K, Doroslovački M. Proportionate-Type Normalized Least Mean Square Algorithms. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Li Q, Aili D, Hjuler HA, Jensen JO, editors. High Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells: Approaches, Status, and Perspectives. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Mao Y, Wang Y, Wang L, Zhou Q. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell, a Rising Star in Regenerative Medicine. In: Zhao RC, editor. Stem Cells: Basics and Clinical Translation, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015, p. 85–109.

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]

Carpineti A. X-Shaped Structure Of Stars Spotted At the Center Of The Milky Way. 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Improved Planning and Management of Information Systems Development Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

McCorkle WB. Tongue, Nib, Block, Bit: Rhetorical Delivery and Technologies of Writing. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 2005.

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]

Greenhouse L. Passengers Granted Same Right as Drivers. New York Times 2007:A12.

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