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

Alvarez, M., 2007. A question of supply and demand. Nature 445, 124.

A journal article with 2 authors

Demaurex, N., Poburko, D., 2009. Cell biology. A revolving door for calcium. Science 326, 57–58.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao, Z.-F., Dai, L.-Q., Zheng, Y.-F., 2013. Postcollisional mafic igneous rocks record crust-mantle interaction during continental deep subduction. Sci. Rep. 3, 3413.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Simonson, T.S., Yang, Y., Huff, C.D., Yun, H., Qin, G., Witherspoon, D.J., Bai, Z., Lorenzo, F.R., Xing, J., Jorde, L.B., Prchal, J.T., Ge, R., 2010. Genetic evidence for high-altitude adaptation in Tibet. Science 329, 72–75.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Klugman, S.A., Panjer, H.H., Willmot, G.E., 2013. Loss Models: Further Topics, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Scott-Conner, C.E.H. (Ed.), 2006. Chassin’s Operative Strategy in Esophageal Surgery. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

van de Poel, I., Nihlén Fahlquist, J., 2013. Risk and Responsibility, in: Roeser, S., Hillerbrand, R., Sandin, P., Peterson, M. (Eds.), Essentials of Risk Theory, SpringerBriefs in Philosophy. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 107–143.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Scientists Develop Bioplastic From Food Scraps [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1981. The Guaranteed Student Loan Information System Needs a Thorough Redesign To Account for the Expenditure of Billions (No. HRD-81-139). 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

Meghani, H.P., 2017. Med-Equip Solutions LLC: A wheelchair distributor company business plan (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Brantley, B., 2016. Diverting, but No Need to Stop the Presses. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alvarez, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Alvarez, 2007; Demaurex and Poburko, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Demaurex and Poburko, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Simonson et al., 2010)

About the journal

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

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