How to format your references using the Journal of Soils and Sediments citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Soils and Sediments. 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

deMenocal PB (2011) Anthropology. Climate and human evolution. Science 331:540–542

A journal article with 2 authors

Delbarco-Trillo J, Ferkin MH (2004) Male mammals respond to a risk of sperm competition conveyed by odours of conspecific males. Nature 431:446–449

A journal article with 3 authors

Davidson EM, Frothingham R, Cook-Deegan R (2007) Science and security. Practical experiences in dual-use review. Science 316:1432–1433

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Eldred KC, Hadyniak SE, Hussey KA, et al (2018) Thyroid hormone signaling specifies cone subtypes in human retinal organoids. Science 362:

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Andresen R, Oades LG, Caputi P (2011) Psychological Recovery. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Maehle E, Römer K, Karl W, Tovar E (eds) (2014) Architecture of Computing Systems – ARCS 2014: 27th International Conference, Lübeck, Germany, February 25-28, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ahn G-O, Brown JM (2006) Combinations of Hypoxia-Targeting Compounds and Radiation-Activated Prodrugs with Ionizing Radiation. In: Brown JM, Mehta MP, Nieder C (eds) Multimodal Concepts for Integration of Cytotoxic Drugs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 67–91

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 Soils and Sediments.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) These Scientists Think “Hexagonal Clouds” Could Explain The Bermuda Triangle. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/these-scientists-think-hexagonal-clouds-could-explain-the-bermuda-triangle/. 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) Airline Competition: Fare and Service Changes at St. Louis Since the TWA-Ozark Merger. 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

Best W (2009) Beneath the Silence. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Gorman J (2017) Male Cuttlefish Tangle in Rare Physical Conflict. New York Times D4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (deMenocal 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Delbarco-Trillo and Ferkin 2004; deMenocal 2011).

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

Two authors: (Delbarco-Trillo and Ferkin 2004)
Three or more authors: (Eldred et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Soils and Sediments
Abbreviation	J. Soils Sediments
ISSN (print)	1439-0108
ISSN (online)	1614-7480
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Stratigraphy