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]

Wuebbles DJ. Atmosphere. Nitrous oxide: no laughing matter. Science 2009;326:56–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Camacho J, Arenas A. Food-web topology: universal scaling in food-web structure? Nature 2005;435:E3-4; discussion E4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zhou Q, Su X, Ning K. Assessment of quality control approaches for metagenomic data analysis. Sci Rep 2014;4:6957.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Murata K, Mitsuoka K, Hirai T, Walz T, Agre P, Heymann JB, et al. Structural determinants of water permeation through aquaporin-1. Nature 2000;407:599–605.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Prutchi D, Prutchi SR. Exploring Quantum Physics Through Hands-On Projects. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Zaknich A. Principles of Adaptive Filters and Self-learning Systems. London: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Furneaux B. Task-Technology Fit Theory: A Survey and Synopsis of the Literature. In: Dwivedi YK, Wade MR, Schneberger SL, editors. Information Systems Theory: Explaining and Predicting Our Digital Society, Vol. 1, New York, NY: Springer; 2012, p. 87–106.

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. Stocking Stuffer Ideas For Science Fans. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/science-stocking-stuffer-ideas/ (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. Information Technology: Management Needs to Address Reporting of IRS Investments’ Cost, Schedule, and Scope Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Shrank SM. ShareOne: An iOS resource application for caseworkers: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Kolomatsky M. The Most Popular During April. New York Times 2017:RE2.

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