How to format your references using the SOIL citation style

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

Randolph, G. J.: Immunology. No need to coax monocytes, Science, 332, 1268–1269, 2011.

A journal article with 2 authors

Temmerman, S. and Kirwan, M. L.: NATURAL HAZARDS. Building land with a rising sea, Science, 349, 588–589, 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xue, P., Qin, H., and Tang, B.: Trapping photons on the line: controllable dynamics of a quantum walk, Sci. Rep., 4, 4825, 2014.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Koussevitzky, S., Nott, A., Mockler, T. C., Hong, F., Sachetto-Martins, G., Surpin, M., Lim, J., Mittler, R., and Chory, J.: Signals from chloroplasts converge to regulate nuclear gene expression, Science, 316, 715–719, 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Glisic, S.: Advanced Wireless Communications, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

Dewsbury, G. and Dobson, J. (Eds.): Responsibility and Dependable Systems, Springer, London, XV, 229 p p., 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Lamont, M. and Guetzkow, J.: How Quality Is Recognized by Peer Review Panels: The Case of the Humanities, in: Research Assessment in the Humanities: Towards Criteria and Procedures, edited by: Ochsner, M., Hug, S. E., and Daniel, H.-D., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 31–41, 2016.

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.

Blog post

Hale, T.: An Astronaut’s View Of Mount Etna’s Recent Volcanic Eruption, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/an-astronauts-view-of-mount-etnas-recent-volcanic-eruption/, last access: 30 October 2018, 2017., 2017.

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: FAA Budget: 1991 Funding Request for Computers and Communications Can Be Reduced, IMTEC-90-89, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Boothe, C. S.: The effects of prototype medium on the user’s overall perception of usability and ability to detect usability flaws, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 2012.

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

Kelly, M.: THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton Says Bush Is Afraid Of Debating “Man to Man,” , New York Times19th September16, 1992.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Randolph, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Randolph, 2011; Temmerman and Kirwan, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Temmerman and Kirwan, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Koussevitzky et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	SOIL
ISSN (print)	2199-3971
ISSN (online)	2199-398X
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