How to format your references using the Rhodora citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Rhodora. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Been, M. D. 2006. Molecular biology. Versatility of self-cleaving ribozymes Science 313:1745–1747.

A journal article with 2 authors

Galant, R. and S. B. Carroll. 2002. Evolution of a transcriptional repression domain in an insect Hox protein Nature 415:910–913.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kageyama, A., T. Miyagoshi, and T. Sato. 2008. Formation of current coils in geodynamo simulations Nature 454:1106–1109.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kim, S. K., J. Lund, M. Kiraly, K. Duke, M. Jiang, J. M. Stuart, A. Eizinger, B. N. Wylie, and G. S. Davidson. 2001. A gene expression map for Caenorhabditis elegans Science 293:2087–2092.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coleman, D. D., D. A. Westcott, and B. E. Harkins. 2016. CWSP®: Certified Wireless Security Professional Study Guide CWSP-205. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.

An edited book

Honenberger, P. (Ed.). 2015. Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology: Nature, Life, and the Human between Transcendental and Empirical Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Läsche, C., E. Böde, and T. Peikenkamp. 2012. A Method for Guided Hazard Identification and Risk Mitigation for Offshore Operations , pp. 37–48. In F. Ortmeier and P. Daniel, eds. Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security: 31st International Conference, SAFECOMP 2012, Magdeburg, Germany, September 25-28, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Rhodora.

Blog post

Andrew, D. 2016, August 30. How A Nasty, Brain-Eating Parasite Could Help Us Fight Cancer. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-a-nasty-braineating-parasite-could-help-us-fight-cancer/.

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. 1976. Study of Certain Management Practices at the National Institute of Education. 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

Brown, C. E. 2013. Sources for the reevaluation of George Frederick Root’s career: The autobiography & a secular cantata. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Stolberg, S. G. and R. Nixon. 2015, April 22. Another City, Another Death in Public Eye New York Times:A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Been 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Galant and Carroll 2002, Been 2006).

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

Two authors: (Galant and Carroll 2002)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Rhodora
Abbreviation	Rhodora
ISSN (print)	0035-4902
Scope	Horticulture Plant Science