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

Smith, M. S. 2012. Change the approach to sustainable development Nature 483:375.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reimann, J. D. R. and P. K. Jackson. 2002. Emi1 is required for cytostatic factor arrest in vertebrate eggs Nature 416:850–854.

A journal article with 3 authors

Guler, U., A. Boltasseva, and V. M. Shalaev. 2014. Applied physics. Refractory plasmonics Science 344:263–264.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Johannessen, O. M., K. Khvorostovsky, M. W. Miles, and L. P. Bobylev. 2005. Recent ice-sheet growth in the interior of Greenland Science 310:1013–1016.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonnini, S., L. Corain, M. Marozzi, and L. Salmaso. 2014. Nonparametric Hypothesis Testing: Rank and Permutation Methods with Applications in R. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Nersisyan, H. 2007. Interactions Between Charged Particles in a Magnetic Field: A Theoretical Approach to Ion Stopping in Magnetized Plasmas, (C. Toepffer and G. Zwicknagel, Eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Zandvliet, D. B., M. Holmes, and M. Starzner. 2011. Seaquaria in Schools, pp. 83–97. In L. D. Yore, E. V. der Flier-Keller, D. W. Blades, T. W. Pelton, and D. B. Zandvliet, eds. Pacific CRYSTAL Centre for Science, Mathematics, and Technology Literacy: Lessons Learned. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

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

Luntz, S. 2014, June 25. Tracking Life’s Precursors In Protoplanetary Disks. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/tracking-lifes-precursors-protoplanetary-disks/.

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. Federal Vehicle Fleets: Leading Practices for Managing Fleet Operations. 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

Howard, G. M. 2012. Roles of vitamin D and calcium in cancer and diet history. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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. 2000, January 14. From Nothing, A Great Team Rises; Duluth Women’s Hockey Program Surges to Prominence in Its First Year New York Times:D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Reimann and Jackson 2002, Smith 2012).

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

Two authors: (Reimann and Jackson 2002)
Three or more authors: (Johannessen et al. 2005)

About the journal

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