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

Michael HA (2013) Geochemistry. An arsenic forecast for China. Science (New York, NY) 341, 852–853.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kirkwood TB, Austad SN (2000) Why do we age? Nature 408, 233–238.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang Z, Shibahara K, Stillman B (2000) PCNA connects DNA replication to epigenetic inheritance in yeast. Nature 408, 221–225.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mendez R, Hake LE, Andresson T, Littlepage LE, Ruderman JV, Richter JD (2000) Phosphorylation of CPE binding factor by Eg2 regulates translation of c-mos mRNA. Nature 404, 302–307.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meghouar H (2016) ‘Corporate Takeover Targets.’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ)

An edited book

Askoxylakis I, Pöhls HC, Posegga J (Eds) (2012) ‘Information Security Theory and Practice. Security, Privacy and Trust in Computing Systems and Ambient Intelligent Ecosystems: 6th IFIP WG 11.2 International Workshop, WISTP 2012, Egham, UK, June 20-22, 2012. Proceedings.’ (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

A chapter in an edited book

Liu Z (2010) Etiology in Chinese Medicine. ‘Essentials of Chinese Medicine’. (Ed Z Liu) pp. 131–164. (Springer: London)

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

Hale T (2017) Motorcyclists Appear To Come Across A ‘Tribesman’ In Indonesian Forest. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/motorcyclists-appear-to-come-across-a-tribesman-in-indonesian-forest/.

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 (1978) Improvement of Certain Management Areas. U.S. Government Printing Office, 091301. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Harris RH (2017) Comparing the Effects of Traditional Face-to-face, Technology-Based, and Blended Instructional Strategies in a Post-Secondary Spanish Language Learning Environment. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Walsh MW (2012) When a County Runs Off the Cliff. New York Times BU1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Michael 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Kirkwood and Austad 2000; Michael 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kirkwood and Austad 2000)
Three or more authors: (Mendez et al. 2000)

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