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]

R.M. Sapolsky, The influence of social hierarchy on primate health, Science 308 (2005) 648–652.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.J. Saykally, D.J. Wales, Chemistry. Pinning down the water hexamer, Science 336 (2012) 814–815.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Semmann, H.-J. Krambeck, M. Milinski, Volunteering leads to rock-paper-scissors dynamics in a public goods game, Nature 425 (2003) 390–393.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

V. Formisano, S. Atreya, T. Encrenaz, N. Ignatiev, M. Giuranna, Detection of methane in the atmosphere of Mars, Science 306 (2004) 1758–1761.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Goering, H.-G. Roos, L. Tobiska, Die Finite-Elemente-Methode für Anfänger, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

L.P. Reis, A.P. Moreira, P.U. Lima, L. Montano, V. Muñoz-Martinez, eds., Robot 2015: Second Iberian Robotics Conference: Advances in Robotics, Volume 2, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y.S. Koh, R. Pears, HI-Tree: Mining High Influence Patterns Using External and Internal Utility Values, in: S. Madria, T. Hara (Eds.), Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery: 17th International Conference, DaWaK 2015, Valencia, Spain, September 1-4, 2015, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 43–56.

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. O`Callaghan, A Glider Might Search For Life In The Atmosphere Of Venus In 2025, IFLScience (2017).

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, NASA Procurement Assessments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.L. Millar, Re-specting graffiti: Transgression at play in art, language, and ritual, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2010.

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]

E. Lipton, S. Eder, B. Protess, Ethical Hazards Dot the President’s Fairways, New York Times (2017) 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	European Journal of Soil Biology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Soil Biol.
ISSN (print)	1164-5563
Scope	Insect Science Soil Science Microbiology