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

Black, D.E., 2002. Climate variability. The rains may be a-comin’. Science 297, 528–529.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shohat, S., Shifman, S., 2014. Bias towards large genes in autism. Nature 512, E1-2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wood, B.J., Halliday, A.N., Rehkämper, M., 2010. Volatile accretion history of the Earth. Nature 467, E6-7.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hosten, O., Rakher, M.T., Barreiro, J.T., Peters, N.A., Kwiat, P.G., 2006. Counterfactual quantum computation through quantum interrogation. Nature 439, 949–952.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huang, H.K., 2005. PACS and Imaging Informatics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Shonin, E., Gordon, W.V., Griffiths, M.D. (Eds.), 2016. Mindfulness and Buddhist-Derived Approaches in Mental Health and Addiction, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Advances in Mental Health and Addiction. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Lam, K.C., Gu, X., Lui, L.M., 2014. Genus-One Surface Registration via Teichmüller Extremal Mapping, in: Golland, P., Hata, N., Barillot, C., Hornegger, J., Howe, R. (Eds.), Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2014: 17th International Conference, Boston, MA, USA, September 14-18, 2014, Proceedings, Part III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 25–32.

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

Davis, J., 2015. Incredibly Preserved Frozen Cave Lions Found In Siberia [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/best-preserved-cave-lions-ever-discovered-found-siberian-permifrost/ (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, 2015. K-12 Education: Most Eighth Grade Students Are Not Proficient in Geography (No. GAO-16-7). 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

Neal, D.J., 2009. Prehospital Patient Triage in Mass Casualty Incidents: An engineering management analysis and prototype strategy recommendation (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Rao, P.S., Isaac, M., 2017. Uber, Lamenting Cost of ‘Bad Reputation,’ Loses London License. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Black, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Black, 2002; Shohat and Shifman, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Shohat and Shifman, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Hosten et al., 2006)

About the journal

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