How to format your references using the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (JSWC). 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

Hyun, I. 2006. Fair payment or undue inducement? Nature 442(7103):629–630.

A journal article with 2 authors

Silver, P. G., and M. D. Behn. 2008. Intermittent plate tectonics? Science (New York, N.Y.) 319(5859):85–88.

A journal article with 3 authors

Beeli, G., M. Esslen, and L. Jäncke. 2005. Synaesthesia: when coloured sounds taste sweet. Nature 434(7029):38.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jiang, L., X. Fan, W. N. Brandt, C. L. Carilli, E. Egami, D. C. Hines, J. D. Kurk, G. T. Richards, Y. Shen, M. A. Strauss, M. Vestergaard, and F. Walter. 2010. Dust-free quasars in the early Universe. Nature 464(7287):380–383.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weller, R. B., H. J. A. Hunter, and M. W. Mann. 2014. Clinical Dermatology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Wenning, G. K., and A. Fanciulli, eds. 2014. Multiple System Atrophy. Vienna: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Barcelos, A. M. F. 2015. Student Teachers’ Beliefs and Motivation, and the Shaping of Their Professional Identities. In Beliefs, Agency and Identity in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching, ed. A. M. F. Barcelos, M. Aro, and M. Ruohotie-Lyhty, 71–96. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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 Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. 2016, July 11. Debunking One Of The Biggest Stereotypes About Women In The Gaming Community. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/debunking-one-of-the-biggest-stereotypes-about-women-in-the-gaming-community/.

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. 2016. Polar Satellites: NOAA Faces Challenges and Uncertainties that Could Affect the Availability of Critical Weather Data. Washington, DC: 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

Dillon, K. S. 2009. Social support to families of children with special needs: A grant. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Greenhouse, L. 2005, November 2. Justices Weighing Narcotics Policy Against Needs of a Church. New York Times (November 2, 2005):A26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hyun 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Hyun 2006, Silver and Behn 2008).

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

Two authors: (Silver and Behn 2008)
Three or more authors: (Jiang et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Abbreviation	J. Soil Water Conserv.
ISSN (print)	0022-4561
ISSN (online)	1941-3300
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Soil Science Nature and Landscape Conservation Water Science and Technology