How to format your references using the Rheumatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Rheumatology. 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

Zemlo T. The evolution of life-sciences sales. Nature. 2007 May 10;447(7141):230.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ellis J, Mavromatos NE. Does gravity correct gauge couplings? Nature. 2011 Nov 23;479(7374):E5-6; discussion E6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hwang CS, Shemorry A, Varshavsky A. N-terminal acetylation of cellular proteins creates specific degradation signals. Science. 2010 Feb 19;327(5968):973–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Scott SH, Gribble PL, Graham KM, Cabel DW. Dissociation between hand motion and population vectors from neural activity in motor cortex. Nature. 2001 Sep 13;413(6852):161–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paoluzzi A, Pascucci V, Vicentino M, Baldazzi C, Portuesi S. Geometric Programming for Computer-Aided Design. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Manea F, Nowotka D, editors. Combinatorics on Words: 10th International Conference, WORDS 2015, Kiel, Germany, September 14-17, 2015, Proceedings. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. XVIII, 237 p. 47 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 9304).

A chapter in an edited book

Schneider K. Rationale as a By-Product. In: Dutoit AH, McCall R, Mistrík I, Paech B, editors. Rationale Management in Software Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 91–109.

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 Rheumatology.

Blog post

Andrews R. Africa Due For Annual Heat Waves By 2040 Thanks To Climate Change. IFLScience. 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

Government Accountability Office. Health and Safety: Environmental Oversight of Classified Federal Research. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Mar. Report No.: T-RCED-96-99.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Haxton SA. Student Risk Perception in the Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 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

Greenhouse L. Justices Explore U.S. Authority Over States on Assisted Suicide. New York Times. 2005 Oct 6;A1.

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	Rheumatology
Abbreviation	Rheumatology (Oxford)
ISSN (print)	1462-0324
ISSN (online)	1462-0332
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Rheumatology