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

Beal MF (2010) Parkinson’s disease: a model dilemma. Nature 466:S8-10

A journal article with 2 authors

Hyde PS, Knudsen EI (2002) The optic tectum controls visually guided adaptive plasticity in the owl’s auditory space map. Nature 415:73–76

A journal article with 3 authors

Schoener TW, Spiller DA, Losos JB (2001) Predators increase the risk of catastrophic extinction of prey populations. Nature 412:183–186

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liu X, Xiang W, Jiao X, et al (2014) Effects of plant virus and its insect vector on Encarsia formosa, a biocontrol agent of whiteflies. Sci Rep 4:5926

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Monino J-L, Sedkaoui S (2016) Big Data, Open Data and Data Development. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Holzer M, Kutrib M (eds) (2014) Implementation and Application of Automata: 19th International Conference, CIAA 2014, Giessen, Germany, July 30 – August 2, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Baisero A, Pokorny FT, Kragic D, Ek CH (2015) The Path Kernel: A Novel Kernel for Sequential Data. In: Fred A, De Marsico M (eds) Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods: International Conference, ICPRAM 2013 Barcelona, Spain, February 15-18, 2013 Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 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

Andrew E (2015) Why Are Cacti So Juicy? The Secret Strategy Of Succulents. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-are-cacti-so-juicy-secret-strategy-succulents/. 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 (2001) Aviation Security: Weaknesses in Airport Security and Options for Assigning Screening Responsibilities. 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

Andrews M (2014) Health literacy competencies for health professionals: A Delphi study. 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

Koblin J (2017) How the Titan Who Terrified The New Yorker Ended Up Saving It. New York Times B3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Beal 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hyde and Knudsen 2002; Beal 2010).

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

Two authors: (Hyde and Knudsen 2002)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al. 2014)

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