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

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

Brooks, T.M. 2014. Conservation: Mind the gaps. Nature, 516, 336–337.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mourou, G. & Tajima, T. 2011. Physics. More intense, shorter pulses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331, 41–42.

A journal article with 3 authors

Popovych, O.V., Yanchuk, S. & Tass, P.A. 2013. Self-organized noise resistance of oscillatory neural networks with spike timing-dependent plasticity. Scientific reports, 3, 2926.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Morris, K.V., Chan, S.W.-L., Jacobsen, S.E. & Looney, D.J. 2004. Small interfering RNA-induced transcriptional gene silencing in human cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305, 1289–1292.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Memming, R. 2015. Semiconductor Electrochemistry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Sencar, H.T. & Memon, N. (Eds). 2013. Digital Image Forensics: There is More to a Picture than Meets the Eye. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Zin, W.A. & Cagido, V.R. 2008. Intrinsic PEEP and its Determination. In: Respiratory System and Artificial Ventilation (eds. Lucangelo, U., Pelosi, P., Zin, W.A. & Aliverti, A.), pp. 37–44. Springer, Milano.

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 Science.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. 2017. Super-Earth Discovered Around Nearby Red Dwarf Star. IFLScience, (At: https://www.iflscience.com/space/superearth-discovered-around-nearby-red-dwarf-star/. Accessed: 30/10/2018).

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

Government Accountability Office. 2003. Information Technology: FBI Needs an Enterprise Architecture to Guide Its Modernization Activities. 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

Brooks, B.M. 2017. Applying Andragogical Principles to Real-Time Embedded Parental Coaching When Helping Their Children with Hearing Loss to Talk. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University.

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

George, R.P. & Moschella, M. 2011. Does Sex Ed Undermine Parental Rights? New York Times, A29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brooks, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Mourou & Tajima, 2011; Brooks, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Mourou & Tajima, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Morris et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Soil Science
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Soil Sci.
ISSN (print)	1351-0754
ISSN (online)	1365-2389
Scope	Soil Science