How to format your references using the International Soil and Water Conservation Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Soil and Water Conservation Research. 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

Brody, H. (2014). Haemophilia. Nature, 515(7528), S157.

A journal article with 2 authors

Merritt, S., & Clauset, A. (2013). Environmental structure and competitive scoring advantages in team competitions. Scientific Reports, 3, 3067.

A journal article with 3 authors

Benham-Pyle, B. W., Pruitt, B. L., & Nelson, W. J. (2015). Cell adhesion. Mechanical strain induces E-cadherin-dependent Yap1 and β-catenin activation to drive cell cycle entry. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6238), 1024–1027.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Wang, X., Li, X., Zhang, L., Yoon, Y., Weber, P. K., Wang, H., Guo, J., & Dai, H. (2009). N-doping of graphene through electrothermal reactions with ammonia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5928), 768–771.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zonnenshain, A., & Stauber, S. (2015). Managing and Engineering Complex Technological Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cheong, O., Chwa, K.-Y., & Park, K. (Eds.). (2010). Algorithms and Computation: 21st International Symposium, ISAAC 2010, Jeju Island, Korea, December 15-17, 2010, Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 6506). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Linz, T., Gourmelon, L., & Langereis, G. (2007). Contactless EMG sensors embroidered onto textile. In S. Leonhardt, T. Falck, & P. Mähönen (Eds.), 4th International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2007): March 26 – 28, 2007 RWTH Aachen University, Germany (pp. 29–34). Springer.

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 International Soil and Water Conservation Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 26). Ancient Mini-Monster Head Mystery Solved – Here’s How We Did It. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-mini-monster-head-mystery-solved-here-s-how-we-did-it/

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. (2008). Business Systems Modernization: Internal Revenue Service’s Fiscal Year 2008 Expenditure Plan (GAO-08-420). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ott, W. H. (2017). An Analysis of the Coordinated Implementation of Digitally-Aided Close Air Support: An Integrated Systems Engineering and Test & Evaluation Approach [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

St. John Kelly, E. (1997, October 12). Have Guitar, Will Picket. New York Times, 148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brody, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Brody, 2014; Merritt & Clauset, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Merritt & Clauset, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Soil and Water Conservation Research
Abbreviation	Int. Soil Water Conserv. Res.
ISSN (print)	2095-6339
Scope