How to format your references using the Rice citation style

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

Ambros V (2004) The functions of animal microRNAs. Nature 431:350–355

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Higgins P, Elton S (2007) Anthropology. Walking on trees. Science 316:1292–1294

A journal article with 3 authors

Berson DM, Dunn FA, Takao M (2002) Phototransduction by retinal ganglion cells that set the circadian clock. Science 295:1070–1073

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bycroft C, Freeman C, Petkova D, et al (2018) The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data. Nature 562:203–209

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yang H, Lee EK (2016) Healthcare Analytics: From Data to Knowledge to Healthcare Improvement. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

An edited book

Hoyles C, Lagrange J-B (eds) (2010) Mathematics Education and Technology-Rethinking the Terrain: The 17th ICMI Study. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Dharani G, Nazar AKA, Saravanane N, et al (2012) On the Recurrence of Coral Bleaching and Recovery in North Bay, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. In: Venkataraman K, Raghunathan C, Sivaperuman C (eds) Ecology of Faunal Communities on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 71–84

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 Rice.

Blog post

Fang J (2011) Males Of Sexually Cannibalistic Species Are Picky. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/males-sexually-cannibalistic-spiders-are-picky/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1983) GAO ADP Data Lines: Issue No. 1. 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

Hilton LC (2015) Case study on organic farming as a sustainable solution for African-American farmers. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Baker L (2006) High Mountain Hiking With a Golden Reward. New York Times F3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ambros 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Ambros 2004; O’Higgins and Elton 2007).

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

Two authors: (O’Higgins and Elton 2007)
Three or more authors: (Bycroft et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Rice
Abbreviation	Rice (N. Y.)
ISSN (print)	1939-8425
ISSN (online)	1939-8433
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science Soil Science