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 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

Morell V (2014) When the bat sings. Science (New York, N.Y.) 344(6190), 1334–1337.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wan Z, Zhang G (2014) Controlled synthesis and visible light photocatalytic activity of Bi12GeO20 uniform microcrystals. Scientific reports 4, 6298.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith SJ, Wigley TM, Edmonds J (2000) CLIMATE: A New Route Toward Limiting Climate Change? Science (New York, N.Y.) 290(5494), 1109–1110.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sharon E, Galun M, Sharon D, Basri R, Brandt A (2006) Hierarchy and adaptivity in segmenting visual scenes. Nature 442(7104), 810–813.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heckman R (2016) ‘Designing Platform Independent Mobile Apps and Services’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

Collet P, Courbage M, Métens S, Neishtadt A, Zaslavsky G (Eds) (2005) ‘Chaotic Dynamics and Transport in Classical and Quantum Systems: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on International Summer School on Chaotic Dynamics and Transport in Classical and Quantum Systems Cargèse, Corsica 18–30 August 2003’ (Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht).

A chapter in an edited book

Kang K (2012) Research on High-Speed Railway Passenger Dedicated Service System Core Technologies. In ‘Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on High-Speed and Intercity Railways: Volume 1.’ Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. (Eds Y-Q Ni, X-W Ye) pp. 51–56. (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 The Rangeland Journal.

Blog post

Andrews R (2017) Researchers Exploring Egyptian Cemetery Stumble Across Astonishing Find. IFLScience. Available at [accessed 30 October 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 (2003) Airport Passenger Screening: Preliminary Observations on Progress Made and Challenges Remaining. GAO-03-1173. 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

Kazadi MM (2013) Use of Data Fusion and SPC in Vibrations Detection. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Taggart J, Granville K (2017) How We Shop: Past, Present Future. New York Times BU4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Morell 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Morell 2014; Wan and Zhang 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wan and Zhang 2014)
Three or more authors: (Sharon et al. 2006)

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