How to format your references using the Soil Research citation style

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

Reed C (2014) Winter is coming. Science (New York, N.Y.) 344(6187), 1054.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bentley WE, Payne GF (2013) Materials science. Nature’s other self-assemblers. Science (New York, N.Y.) 341(6142), 136–137.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu L, Li X-Q, Sun Q-F (2014) Revisit the spin-FET: multiple reflection, inelastic scattering, and lateral size effects. Scientific reports 4, 7527.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fremeau RT Jr, Kam K, Qureshi T, Johnson J, Copenhagen DR, Storm-Mathisen J, Chaudhry FA, Nicoll RA, Edwards RH (2004) Vesicular glutamate transporters 1 and 2 target to functionally distinct synaptic release sites. Science (New York, N.Y.) 304(5678), 1815–1819.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mazer A (2011) ‘Shifting the Earth’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

McCluggage WG (2014) ‘Cellular Pathology of Glandular Lesions and Uncommon Neoplasms of the Cervix’ (Eds. J Tidy and JHF Smith) (Springer: London).

A chapter in an edited book

Kastrinogiannis T, Tcholtchev N, Prakash A, Chaparadza R, Kaldanis V, Coskun H, Papavassiliou S (2011) Addressing Stability in Future Autonomic Networking. In ‘Mobile Networks and Management: Second International ICST Conference, MONAMI 2010, Santander, Spain, September 22-24, 2010, Revised Selected Papers.’ Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. (Eds K Pentikousis, R Agüero, M García-Arranz, S Papavassiliou) pp. 50–61. (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

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 Research.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Spider Masquerades As Bird Poo. IFLScience. Available at [accessed 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 (1975) Actions Taken or Needed To Curb Widespread Abuse of the Citizens Band Radio Service. GGD-75-88. 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

Grace J (2017) A Correlational Study of the Relationship Between TEAS V and Success in Licensed Practical Nursing Students. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Cooper M, Walsh MW (2011) Public Pensions, Once Off Limits, Face Budget Cuts. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reed 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bentley and Payne 2013; Reed 2014).

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

Two authors: (Bentley and Payne 2013)
Three or more authors: (Fremeau et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Soil Research
Abbreviation	Soil Res.
ISSN (print)	1838-675X
ISSN (online)	1838-6768
Scope	Soil Science Earth-Surface Processes Environmental Science (miscellaneous)