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

Smaglik, P. 2004. The secrets of success Nature 432:253.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bartek, J. and Z. Hodny. 2014. Ageing: Old blood stem cells feel the stress Nature 512:140–141.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ross, R. J., M. M. Weiner, and H. Lin. 2014. PIWI proteins and PIWI-interacting RNAs in the soma Nature 505:353–359.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Isberg, J., J. Hammersberg, E. Johansson, T. Wikström, D. J. Twitchen, A. J. Whitehead, S. E. Coe, and G. A. Scarsbrook. 2002. High carrier mobility in single-crystal plasma-deposited diamond Science 297:1670–1672.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shimizu, H. 2017. Shimizu’s Dermatology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Liddle, S. W., K.-D. Schewe, A. M. Tjoa, and X. Zhou (Eds.). 2012. Database and Expert Systems Applications: 23rd International Conference, DEXA 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 3-6, 2012. Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Carnio, S., P. Bironzo, S. Novello, and G. V. Scagliotti. 2015. How to Personalize Perioperative Chemotherapy in Early Non-small Cell Lung Cancer?, pp. 49–66. In S. Peters and B. Besse, eds. New Therapeutic Strategies in Lung Cancers. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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, May 27. Meet The Glow-In-The-Dark Shark. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/glow-dark-shark/.

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. 1995. Technology: America’s Schools Not Designed or Equipped for 21st Century. 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

Iniguez, D. 2013. Mentoring through performing arts; A grant proposal for at risk youth in middle school. 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

Hodara, S. 2014, April 6. Creatures Great, Small and Imagined New York Times:CT9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2004, Bartek and Hodny 2014).

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

Two authors: (Bartek and Hodny 2014)
Three or more authors: (Isberg et al. 2002)

About the journal

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