How to format your references using the Applied Soil Ecology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applied Soil Ecology. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Blatt, R., 2000. Push-button entanglement. Nature 404, 231–232.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rotenberg, E., Yakir, D., 2010. Contribution of semi-arid forests to the climate system. Science 327, 451–454.

A journal article with 3 authors

Greiner, M., Regal, C.A., Jin, D.S., 2003. Emergence of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate from a Fermi gas. Nature 426, 537–540.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Torchinsky, M.B., Garaude, J., Martin, A.P., Blander, J.M., 2009. Innate immune recognition of infected apoptotic cells directs T(H)17 cell differentiation. Nature 458, 78–82.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chappell, D., 2014. The JCT Standard Building Contract 2011. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford.

An edited book

Ong, L. (Ed.), 2005. Computer Science Logic: 19th International Workshop, CSL 2005, 14th Annual Conference of the EACSL, Oxford, UK, August 22-25, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ho, D., 2015. Nanodiamond-Based Chemotherapy and Imaging, in: Mirkin, C.A., Meade, T.J., Petrosko, S.H., Stegh, A.H. (Eds.), Nanotechnology-Based Precision Tools for the Detection and Treatment of Cancer, Cancer Treatment and Research. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 85–102.

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 Applied Soil Ecology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. PhD Student Finds Two Massive Stars With Magnetic Fields In A Binary System [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1984. [Federal Policies and Practices for Acquiring Information Technology Can Be Improved] (No. 124890). 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

Serrano, M., 2017. Bilingual Sentiment Analysis of Spanglish Tweets (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Markoff, J., 2016. Another Sign of Trouble in Google’s Self-Driving Car Unit: Its Top Roboticist Is Leaving. New York Times B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blatt, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Blatt, 2000; Rotenberg and Yakir, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Rotenberg and Yakir, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Torchinsky et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Applied Soil Ecology
Abbreviation	Appl. Soil Ecol.
ISSN (print)	0929-1393
Scope	Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Soil Science Ecology