How to format your references using the Rheumatology International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Rheumatology International. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Toms DJ (2010) Quantum gravitational contributions to quantum electrodynamics. Nature 468:56–59

A journal article with 2 authors

Finke DL, Snyder WE (2008) Niche partitioning increases resource exploitation by diverse communities. Science 321:1488–1490

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu DW-L, Bischof WF, Kingstone A (2013) Looking while eating: the importance of social context to social attention. Sci Rep 3:2356

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Busemeyer L, Ruckelshausen A, Möller K, et al (2013) Precision phenotyping of biomass accumulation in triticale reveals temporal genetic patterns of regulation. Sci Rep 3:2442

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Feyel P (2013) Loop-shaping Robust Control. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Hildebrandt M, Gaakeer J (2013) Human Law and Computer Law: Comparative Perspectives. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Syed MN, Principe JC, Pardalos PM (2012) Correntropy in Data Classification. In: Sorokin A, Murphey R, Thai MT, Pardalos PM (eds) Dynamics of Information Systems: Mathematical Foundations. Springer, New York, NY, pp 81–117

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 International.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) How The Brain Reads Music: The Evidence For Musical Dyslexia. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-brain-reads-music-evidence-musical-dyslexia/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1977) Vulnerabilities of Telecommunications Systems to Unauthorized Use. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Thom RR (2008) Beyond the numbers: A phenomenological study of intangible assets for small manufacturing business valuation. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Palmer E, Otis J (2016) Neediest Cases Fund Opens 105th Campaign. New York Times A30

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 International
Abbreviation	Rheumatol. Int.
ISSN (print)	0172-8172
ISSN (online)	1437-160X
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy Rheumatology

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