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]

G. Meister, Molecular biology. RNA interference in the nucleus, Science. 321 (2008) 496–497.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. Zhang, D. Kalderon, Hedgehog acts as a somatic stem cell factor in the Drosophila ovary, Nature. 410 (2001) 599–604.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.E. Childers, S. Ciufo, D.R. Lovley, Geobacter metallireducens accesses insoluble Fe(III) oxide by chemotaxis, Nature. 416 (2002) 767–769.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W.D. Jones, P. Cayirlioglu, I.G. Kadow, L.B. Vosshall, Two chemosensory receptors together mediate carbon dioxide detection in Drosophila, Nature. 445 (2007) 86–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L.S. da Silva, R. Simões, H. Gervásio, Design of Steel Structures, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

D. Gaïti, ed., Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, IV: Fourth IFIP International Conference on Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, Lannion, France, November 14–18, 2005, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Gribovskaya, I. Virbitskaite, A Categorical Observation of Timed Testing Equivalence, in: V. Malyshkin (Ed.), Parallel Computing Technologies: 9th International Conference, PaCT 2007, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia, September 3-7, 2007. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007: pp. 35–46.

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, So Your Teenager Is Vaping E-Cigarettes – Should You Worry?, 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, Rail Transportation: Federal Railroad Administration’s New Approach to Railroad Safety, 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]

J. Wignall, No longer in the shadows: Identity, citizenship, and belonging among undocumented college students in Southern California, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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. Wagner, Harvey and the Mets Struggle Again, New York Times. (2017) B9.

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