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]

von Braun J. The food crisis isn’t over. Nature 2008;456:701.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Collier P, Alles CM. Materials science. Materials ecology: an industrial perspective. Science 2010;330:919–20.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Galloway KE, Franco E, Smolke CD. Dynamically reshaping signaling networks to program cell fate via genetic controllers. Science 2013;341:1235005.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ogi H, Fukukshima M, Hamada H, Noi K, Hirao M, Yagi H, et al. Ultrafast propagation of β-amyloid fibrils in oligomeric cloud. Sci Rep 2014;4:6960.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Vona LW. Fraud Data Analytics Methodology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Stange C, editor. Carotenoids in Nature: Biosynthesis, Regulation and Function. vol. 79. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kim D-W, Agrawal GK, Rakwal R, Ahmed S, Rohila JS. Genomic Methods for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops. In: Ricroch A, Chopra S, Fleischer SJ, editors. Plant Biotechnology: Experience and Future Prospects, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 35–42.

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]

Fang J. Corals Eat By Stirring Up Turbulent Vortexes. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/corals-eat-stirring-turbulent-vortexes/ (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. School-Meals Programs: USDA Has Enhanced Controls, but Additional Verification Could Help Ensure Legitimate Program Access. 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]

Perfitt T. Megaphone: Fault tolerant, scalable, and trustworthy peer-to-peer microblogging. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

Gustines GG. Dick Grayson Outgrows the Robin Costume. New York Times 2015:D10.

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