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

Caldwell M. Careers in behavioral science. Neuromarketing careers. Science. 2007 May 18;316(5827):1060–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Campbell IH, O’Neill HSC. Evidence against a chondritic Earth. Nature. 2012 Mar 28;483(7391):553–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yu Y, Huang L, Cao L. Semiconductor solar superabsorbers. Sci Rep. 2014 Feb 17;4:4107.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bisazza A, Butterworth B, Piffer L, Bahrami B, Miletto Petrazzini ME, Agrillo C. Collective enhancement of numerical acuity by meritocratic leadership in fish. Sci Rep. 2014 Apr 2;4:4560.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stoop I, Billiet J, Koch A, Fitzgerald R. Improving Survey Response. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

Fridrich J, editor. Information Hiding: 6th International Workshop, IH 2004, Toronto, Canada, May 23-25, 2004, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. IX, 371 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 3200).

A chapter in an edited book

Marschner P, Rengel Z. Contributions of Rhizosphere Interactions to Soil Biological Fertility. In: Abbott LK, Murphy DV, editors. Soil Biological Fertility: A Key to Sustainable Land Use in Agriculture. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2004. p. 81–98.

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

Carpineti A. Pulsating White Dwarf Whips Its Companion Star With Beam Of Particles. 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. Transportation Security: TSA Has Made Progress in Implementing the Transportation Worker Identification Credential Program, but Challenges Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Oct. Report No.: GAO-08-133T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Greene AE. An Inquiry into Workplace Incivility: Perceptions of Working Graduate Students [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2012.

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

Barron J. The Public Face and Voice of Crazy Eddie Recalls the Real One. New York Times. 2016 Sep 13;A24.

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