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]

P. Hemmer, Chemistry. Toward molecular-scale MRI, Science 339 (2013) 529–530.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Pawson, P. Nash, Assembly of cell regulatory systems through protein interaction domains, Science 300 (2003) 445–452.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Gélinas, J.A. Baldock, J.I. Hedges, Organic carbon composition of marine sediments: effect of oxygen exposure on oil generation potential, Science 294 (2001) 145–148.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.P. Diggle, A.S. Griffin, G.S. Campbell, S.A. West, Cooperation and conflict in quorum-sensing bacterial populations, Nature 450 (2007) 411–414.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K.A. Teague, N. Gallicchio, The Evolution of Meteorology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

R. Guerraoui, P. Romano, eds., Transactional Memory. Foundations, Algorithms, Tools, and Applications: COST Action Euro-TM IC1001, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Q. Zhang, W. Zhang, R. Nogales-Cadenas, J.-R. Lin, Y. Cai, Z.D. Zhang, From Gene Expression to Disease Phenotypes: Network-Based Approaches to Study Complex Human Diseases, in: J. Wu (Ed.), Transcriptomics and Gene Regulation, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2016: pp. 115–140.

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]

E. Andrew, There’s No Evidence Human Pheromones Exist – No Matter What You Find For Sale Online, IFLScience (2015).

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, Next Generation Air Transportation System: Issues Associated with Midterm Implementation of Capabilities and Full System Transformation, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Stout, The Effects of Discipline with African-American Males at an Alternative Middle School: The Perceptions of Parents/Guardians, Teachers, Administrators, and Other Academic Stakeholders, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2017.

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]

J. Otis, For the First Time, She Hears the Birds Chirp And the Wind Whistle, New York Times (2017) A19.

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