How to format your references using the Soil Processes citation style

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

DeWeerdt, S. Animal Models: Towards a Myeloma Mouse. Nature 2011, 480, S38-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chouard, T.; Venema, L. Machine Intelligence. Nature 2015, 521, 435.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hanna, R.A.; Campbell, R.L.; Davies, P.L. Calcium-Bound Structure of Calpain and Its Mechanism of Inhibition by Calpastatin. Nature 2008, 456, 409–412.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Headland, S.E.; Jones, H.R.; D’Sa, A.S.V.; Perretti, M.; Norling, L.V. Cutting-Edge Analysis of Extracellular Microparticles Using ImageStream(X) Imaging Flow Cytometry. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5237.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wong, B.P.; Mittal, A.; Cao, Y.; Starr, G. Nano-CMOS Circuit and Physical Design; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005; ISBN 9780471653820.

An edited book

Inner Solar System: Prospective Energy and Material Resources; Badescu, V., Zacny, K., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; ISBN 9783319195681.

A chapter in an edited book

Jordan, W.R.; Lubick, G.M. Invention. In Making Nature Whole: A History of Ecological Restoration; Lubick, G.M., Ed.; Island Press/Center for Resource Economics: Washington, DC, 2011; pp. 61–84 ISBN 9781610910422.

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 Processes.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Plants Release Chemical Weapons and Deploy Insect Armies in Their Defence Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/plants-release-chemical-weapons-and-deploy-insect-armies-their-defence/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Medicaid Information Technology: CMS Supports Use of Program Integrity Systems but Should Require States to Determine Effectiveness; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2015;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Clark, K.N. Institutions and Self-Governing Social Systems: Linking Reflexivity and Institutional Theories for Cybersecurity and Other Commons Governance Policies. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 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

Greenhouse, L. Justices, Voting 5-4, Limit the Use of Race In Integration Plans. New York Times 2007, A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Soil Processes
ISSN (online)	2411-5126
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