How to format your references using the Rhizosphere citation style

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

Solow, A.R., 2013. Global warming: A call for peace on climate and conflict. Nature 497, 179–180.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pacala, S., Socolow, R., 2004. Stabilization wedges: solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies. Science 305, 968–972.

A journal article with 3 authors

Säterberg, T., Sellman, S., Ebenman, B., 2013. High frequency of functional extinctions in ecological networks. Nature 499, 468–470.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zürner, A., Kirstein, J., Döblinger, M., Bräuchle, C., Bein, T., 2007. Visualizing single-molecule diffusion in mesoporous materials. Nature 450, 705–708.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Popkin, J.D., 2011. A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Lytras, M.D., Damiani, E., Ordóñez de Pablos, P. (Eds.), 2009. Web 2.0: The Business Model. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Dold, M.F., 2016. Condorcet’s Jury Theorem as a Rational Justification of Soft Paternalistic Consumer Policies, in: Mathis, K., Tor, A. (Eds.), Nudging - Possibilities, Limitations and Applications in European Law and Economics, Papers on Economics and Evolution. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 39–58.

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 Rhizosphere.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Machines Can Filter Out Chatter In A Crowded Room, Just Like Us [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/machines-filter-out-chatter-crowded-room-just-us/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2011. School Improvement Grants: Early Implementation Under Way, but Reforms Affected by Short Time Frames (No. GAO-11-741). 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

Uzoff, P.P., 2014. Virtual school teacher’s science efficacy beliefs: The effects of community of practice on science-teaching efficacy beliefs (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Hollander, S., 2002. Game and the Season End In Frustration for the Power. New York Times 85.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Solow, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Pacala and Socolow, 2004; Solow, 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Pacala and Socolow, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Zürner et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Rhizosphere
Abbreviation	Rhizosphere
ISSN (print)	2452-2198
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