How to format your references using the Revue du Rhumatisme monographies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revue du Rhumatisme monographies. 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]

Zehr JP. EVOLUTION. How single cells work together. Science 2015;349:1163–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Goedert M, Spillantini MG. A century of Alzheimer’s disease. Science 2006;314:777–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Aylward RB, Sutter RW, Heymann DL. Policy. OPV cessation--the final step to a “polio-free” world. Science 2005;310:625–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Chen G-Y, Chen S-L, Li C-M, Chen Y-N. Examining non-locality and quantum coherent dynamics induced by a common reservoir. Sci Rep 2013;3:2514.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Stolarski TA, Tobe S. Rolling Contacts. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2000.

An edited book

[1]

Gabrys B, Howlett RJ, Jain LC, editors. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 10th International Conference, KES 2006, Bournemouth, UK, October 9-11, 2006. Proceedings, Part II. vol. 4252. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Konieczny L, Roterman-Konieczna I, Spólnik P. Interrelationship In Organized Biological Systems. In: Roterman-Konieczna I, Spólnik P, editors. Systems Biology: Functional Strategies of Living Organisms, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 167–200.

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 monographies.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. 55 million-year-old ancestor of lions, tigers, and bears (oh my!) has been discovered. IFLScience 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Secure Flight: TSA Should Take Additional Steps to Determine Program Effectiveness. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Stephenson JH. Ethics and morality in software development: A developer’s perspective. Doctoral dissertation. Capella 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]

Williams J. Learning About His Subjects, and Himself. New York Times 2017:C6.

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 monographies
ISSN (print)	1878-6227
Scope	Rheumatology