How to format your references using the European Journal of Soil Biology citation style

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

[1]

Z. Wan, China’s scientific progress hinges on access to data, Nature 520 (2015) 587.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Huebsch, D.J. Mooney, Inspiration and application in the evolution of biomaterials, Nature 462 (2009) 426–432.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Santiago, C. Henzler, M. Hothorn, Molecular mechanism for plant steroid receptor activation by somatic embryogenesis co-receptor kinases, Science 341 (2013) 889–892.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.H. Lee, T.B. Holland, A.K. Mukherjee, X. Zhang, H. Wang, Direct observation of Lomer-Cottrell locks during strain hardening in nanocrystalline nickel by in situ TEM, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1061.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety, Guidelines for Process Safety Documentation, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 1995.

An edited book

[1]

R. Buchmann, C.V. Kifor, J. Yu, eds., Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management: 7th International Conference, KSEM 2014, Sibiu, Romania, October 16-18, 2014. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Shao, J. Lu, M. Shi, Reactions of VDCPs with Electrophiles, in: J. Lu, M. Shi (Eds.), Chemical Transformations of Vinylidenecyclopropanes, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 47–53.

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 European Journal of Soil Biology.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Researchers Have Sequenced Giraffe and Okapi Genomes For The First Time, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-have-sequenced-giraffe-and-okapi-genomes-first-time/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, [Department of Energy’s Authority To Establish a Facility at Morgantown, West Virginia], U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.G. Landon, The development of a transitional shelter program for homeless women: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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

[1]

M.D. Shear, An Attack Changes the Conversation as the President Travels On to Europe, New York Times (2017) A9.

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	European Journal of Soil Biology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Soil Biol.
ISSN (print)	1164-5563
Scope	Insect Science Soil Science Microbiology