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

Harvey RP (2010) Planetary science. Carbonates and Martian climate. Science 329:400–401

A journal article with 2 authors

Berkman PA, Young OR (2009) Science and government. Governance and environmental change in the Arctic Ocean. Science 324:339–340

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoshimura Y, Dantzker JLM, Callaway EM (2005) Excitatory cortical neurons form fine-scale functional networks. Nature 433:868–873

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang H, Yin Y, Wang G, et al (2014) Interleukin-6 disrupts blood-testis barrier through inhibiting protein degradation or activating phosphorylated ERK in Sertoli cells. Sci Rep 4:4260

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matignon R (2007) Data Mining Using SAS® Enterprise Miner^TM. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Herrero Á, Sedano J, Baruque B, et al (eds) (2015) 10th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Malinowska AB, Odzijewicz T (2015) Noether’s Second Theorem for Variable Order Fractional Variational Problems. In: Latawiec KJ, Łukaniszyn M, Stanisławski R (eds) Advances in Modelling and Control of Non-integer-Order Systems: 6th Conference on Non-integer Order Calculus and Its Applications, 2014 Opole, Poland. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 37–46

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) The Tropical Steam-Engine: How Does El Niño Warm The Entire Globe? In: IFLScience. 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 (2002) NASA Management Challenges: Human Capital and Other Critical Areas Need to be Addressed. 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

Zhao J (2012) Contextual Differential Item Functioning: Examining the Validity of Teaching Self-Efficacy Instruments Using Hierarchical Generalized Linear Modeling. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Kelly M (2001) Politically Charged Graffiti Treats Spears as a Symptom, Not a Star. New York Times 148

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harvey 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Berkman and Young 2009; Harvey 2010).

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

Two authors: (Berkman and Young 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zhang 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