How to format your references using the Soil Biology and Biochemistry citation style

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

Matthews, B.W., 2000. Paul Sigler (1934-2000). Nature 403, 848.

A journal article with 2 authors

Booth, B., Bellouin, N., 2015. Climate change: Black carbon and atmospheric feedbacks. Nature 519, 167–168.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sugase, K., Dyson, H.J., Wright, P.E., 2007. Mechanism of coupled folding and binding of an intrinsically disordered protein. Nature 447, 1021–1025.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Buskila, Y., Breen, P.P., Tapson, J., van Schaik, A., Barton, M., Morley, J.W., 2014. Extending the viability of acute brain slices. Scientific Reports 4, 5309.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Glover, F., Klingman, D., Phillips, N.V., 1992. Network Models in Optimization and their Applications in Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Petry, F.E., Robinson, V.B., Cobb, M.A. (Eds.), 2005. Fuzzy Modeling with Spatial Information for Geographic Problems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

López Mazz, J.M., 2015. Archaeology of Historical Conflicts, Colonial Oppression, and Political Violence in Uruguay, in: González-Ruibal, A., Moshenska, G. (Eds.), Ethics and the Archaeology of Violence. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 71–87.

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 Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2015. You Can Watch Wild Orcas In Action Thanks To These New Live Cameras [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/now-you-can-watch-orca-whales-live-thanks-these-cameras/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1981. The Bureau of the Census Must Solve ADP Acquisition and Security Problems (No. AFMD-82-13). 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

Dair, C., 2015. Development of a nutrition-related curriculum for sustainable food waste management for foodservice operations (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Williams, J., 2017. Next Time, Maybe Don’t Use Airbnb. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Matthews, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Matthews, 2000; Booth and Bellouin, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Booth and Bellouin, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Buskila et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Abbreviation	Soil Biol. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	0038-0717
Scope	Soil Science Microbiology