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 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

Appel AM (2014) Electrochemistry: Catalysis at the boundaries. Nature 508:460–461

A journal article with 2 authors

Kashefi K, Lovley DR (2003) Extending the upper temperature limit for life. Science 301:934

A journal article with 3 authors

Watanabe Y, Farquhar J, Ohmoto H (2009) Anomalous fractionations of sulfur isotopes during thermochemical sulfate reduction. Science 324:370–373

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Moon RT, Bowerman B, Boutros M, Perrimon N (2002) The promise and perils of Wnt signaling through beta-catenin. Science 296:1644–1646

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murphy R (2010) Dynamic Assessment, Intelligence and Measurement. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Lu N (2014) Capacity Analysis of Vehicular Communication Networks. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Wang JTL, Wen D, Shapiro BA, et al (2007) Toward an Integrated RNA Motif Database. In: Cohen-Boulakia S, Tannen V (eds) Data Integration in the Life Sciences: 4th International Workshop, DILS 2007, Philadelphia, PA, USA, June 27-29, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 27–36

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) This Technique Could Allow Us To Harvest Water From Asteroids. 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 (1988) The Times and Space: An Interview With Michael Collins. 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

Baxter JM (2010) Enantioselective Mannich-type Reactions Promoted by Strained Silane Lewis Acids: Selective Generation of Two Contiguous Stereocenters and Entry into a Novel Class of Pyrrolidines. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia 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

Oestreich JR (2016) Inhaling an Era of Intimacy and Beauty. New York Times C4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Appel 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kashefi and Lovley 2003; Appel 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kashefi and Lovley 2003)
Three or more authors: (Moon et al. 2002)

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