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

Yellen, G. 2002. The voltage-gated potassium channels and their relatives. Nature, 419, 35–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sato, M. & Sievers, A.J. 2004. Direct observation of the discrete character of intrinsic localized modes in an antiferromagnet. Nature, 432, 486–488.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mottram, D.S., Wedzicha, B.L. & Dodson, A.T. 2002. Acrylamide is formed in the Maillard reaction. Nature, 419, 448–449.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, X., Shao, Y., Tang, Y. & Yao, K.-F. 2014. Highly uniform and reproducible surface enhanced Raman scattering on air-stable metallic glassy nanowire array. Scientific reports, 4, 5835.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Haas, T.C. 2013. Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Ecosystem Managers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Champagnat, J., Denavit-Saubié, M., Fortin, G., Foutz, A.S. & Thoby-Brisson, M. (Eds). 2005. Post-Genomic Perspectives in Modeling and Control of Breathing. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Hommel, W. 2005. An Architecture for Privacy-Aware Inter-domain Identity Management. In: Ambient Networks: 16th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 2005, Barcelona, Spain, October 24-26, 2005. Proceedings (eds. Schönwälder, J. & Serrat, J.), pp. 48–59. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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

Hamilton, K. 2017. Elephants Sleep The Least Of Any Mammal – Just Two Hours A Day. IFLScience, (At: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/elephants-sleep-the-least-of-any-mammal-just-two-hours-a-day/. 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. 1984. New Directions for Federal Programs To Aid Mathematics and Science Teaching. 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

Miranda, P.J. 2015. Tightly-coupled sulfur-cycling microbial mats of the White Point hydrothermal vent field, CA: An analog for deep-sea vents. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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. 2010. ... And Sewage, Too. New York Times, A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yellen, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Yellen, 2002; Sato & Sievers, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Sato & Sievers, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

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