How to format your references using the European Journal of Soil Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Soil Biology. 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

[1]

P. Smaglik, Visions of Europe’s future, Nature 421 (2003) 557.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H.W. Virgin, B.D. Walker, Immunology and the elusive AIDS vaccine, Nature 464 (2010) 224–231.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Tang, J. Iwahara, G.M. Clore, Visualization of transient encounter complexes in protein-protein association, Nature 444 (2006) 383–386.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y.-Y. Chen, C.-Y. Hsieh, T. Jayakumar, K.-H. Lin, D.-S. Chou, W.-J. Lu, M.-J. Hsu, J.-R. Sheu, Andrographolide induces vascular smooth muscle cell apoptosis through a SHP-1-PP2A-p38MAPK-p53 cascade, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5651.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Wahbi, Algorithms and Ordering Heuristics for Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

M.H. Siddiqui, M.H. Al-Whaibi, F. Mohammad, eds., Nanotechnology and Plant Sciences: Nanoparticles and Their Impact on Plants, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Austin, J. Bentkover, L. Chait, Tools for Transformational Strategic Planning, in: J. Austin, J. Bentkover, L. Chait (Eds.), Leading Strategic Change in an Era of Healthcare Transformation, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 47–70.

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 European Journal of Soil Biology.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, People Have Already Figured Out How To Cheat At Pokémon GO, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/people-have-already-figured-out-how-to-cheat-at-pokmon-go/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Strategic Bombers: Issues Related to the B-1B Aircraft Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.L. Randall, Psychologists’ use of, familiarity, and comfort with Alcoholics Anonymous Slogans in psychotherapy, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2010.

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

[1]

B.K.B. Kelly, A. Writer, has covered Chicago politics for eight years, CHICAGO AND ITS MAYOR, TWO YEARS LATER, New York Times (1985) 123.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Soil Biology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Soil Biol.
ISSN (print)	1164-5563
Scope	Insect Science Soil Science Microbiology