How to format your references using the The Rangeland Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Rangeland Journal. 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	Download the output style file
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

Godfray HCJ (2011) Ecology. Food and biodiversity. Science (New York, NY) 333, 1231–1232.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cox RM, Calsbeek R (2010) Cryptic sex-ratio bias provides indirect genetic benefits despite sexual conflict. Science (New York, NY) 328, 92–94.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaiser SM, Malik HS, Emerman M (2007) Restriction of an extinct retrovirus by the human TRIM5alpha antiviral protein. Science (New York, NY) 316, 1756–1758.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Guy J, Gan J, Selfridge J, Cobb S, Bird A (2007) Reversal of neurological defects in a mouse model of Rett syndrome. Science (New York, NY) 315, 1143–1147.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kassapoglou C (2015) ‘Modeling the Effect of Damage in Composite Structures.’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK)

An edited book

Hartel RW (2009) ‘Sai cosa mangi?: La scienza del cibo.’ (A Hartel, Ed.). (Springer: Milano)

A chapter in an edited book

Angelini P, Da Lozzo G, Di Battista G, Frati F (2013) Strip Planarity Testing. ‘Graph Drawing: 21st International Symposium, GD 2013, Bordeaux, France, September 23-25, 2013, Revised Selected Papers’. (Eds S Wismath, A Wolff) Lecture Notes in Computer Science. pp. 37–48. (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 The Rangeland Journal.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) Meteorites Indicate Early Martian Atmosphere. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/meteorites-indicate-early-martian-atmosphere/.

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 (2011) Reimbursable Space Act Agreements: NASA Generally Adhering to Fair Reimbursement Controls, but Guidance on Waived Cost Justifications Needs Refinement. U.S. Government Printing Office, GAO-11-553R. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Thigpen LC (2012) Building a concrete foundation: A mixed-method study of teaching styles and the use of concrete, representational, and abstract mathematics instruction. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Isherwood C (2015) Pursuing Love and an Even More Elusive Goal. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Godfray 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Cox and Calsbeek 2010; Godfray 2011).

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

Two authors: (Cox and Calsbeek 2010)
Three or more authors: (Guy et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Rangeland Journal
Abbreviation	Rangel. J.
ISSN (print)	1036-9872
ISSN (online)	1834-7541
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Ecology