How to format your references using the Rhodora citation style

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

Bynum, W. F. 2002. Portraits of science. Mosquitoes bite more than once Science 295:47–48.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nicholson, J. M. and J. P. A. Ioannidis. 2012. Research grants: Conform and be funded Nature 492:34–36.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barnett, T. P., D. W. Pierce, and R. Schnur. 2001. Detection of anthropogenic climate change in the world’s oceans Science 292:270–274.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bradbury, E. J., L. D. F. Moon, R. J. Popat, V. R. King, G. S. Bennett, P. N. Patel, J. W. Fawcett, and S. B. McMahon. 2002. Chondroitinase ABC promotes functional recovery after spinal cord injury Nature 416:636–640.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Engle, C. R., K. K. Quagrainie, and M. M. Dey. 2016. Seafood and Aquaculture Marketing Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Agnello, M. F. and W. M. Reynolds (Eds.). 2016. Practicing Critical Pedagogy: The Influences of Joe L. Kincheloe1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Hautphenne, S., G. Latouche, and G. T. Nguyen. 2013. Markovian Trees Subject to Catastrophes: Would They Survive Forever?, pp. 87–106. In G. Latouche, V. Ramaswami, J. Sethuraman, K. Sigman, M. S. Squillante, and D. D. Yao, eds. Matrix-Analytic Methods in Stochastic Models. Springer, New York, NY.

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 Rhodora.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015, August 25. Greenland Glacier Just Shed A Chunk Of Ice The Size Of Manhattan. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/greenland-glacier-just-shed-chunk-ice-could-cover-manhattan/.

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. 1979. Immigration and Naturalization Service Proposed Procurement of Automated Data Processing Equipment To Streamline and Update Office Procedures. 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

Manley Lima, M. C. 2014. Commuter Students’ Social Integration: The Relationship Between Involvement in Extracurricular Activities and Sense of Belonging. 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

Brantley, B. 2017, July 26. Theater; Three Sisters, Lots of Kvetching New York Times:AR3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bynum 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bynum 2002, Nicholson and Ioannidis 2012).

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

Two authors: (Nicholson and Ioannidis 2012)
Three or more authors: (Bradbury et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Rhodora
Abbreviation	Rhodora
ISSN (print)	0035-4902
Scope	Horticulture Plant Science