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

Zinner, E. 2003. Planetary science. An isotopic view of the early solar system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300, 265–267.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kiberstis, P. & Roberts, L. 2014. Breast cancer. A race still unfinished. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343, 1451.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tibi, R., Wiens, D.A. & Inoue, H. 2003. Remote triggering of deep earthquakes in the 2002 Tonga sequences. Nature, 424, 921–925.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Piro, N.A., Figueroa, J.S., McKellar, J.T. & Cummins, C.C. 2006. Triple-bond reactivity of diphosphorus molecules. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313, 1276–1279.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

MacRoberts. 2014. MacRoberts on Scottish Construction Contracts. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Peterson, M.P. (Ed). 2008. International Perspectives on Maps and the Internet. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Goggin, G. 2009. Mobile Learning: The Significance of New Mobile and Wireless Communications Technologies for Education. In: Comparative Information Technology: Languages, Societies and the Internet (eds. Gibbs, D. & Zajda, J.), pp. 65–78. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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

Hale, T. 2016. A Chinese Doctor Is Now Planning A Human Head Transplant. IFLScience, (At: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/a-chinese-doctor-is-now-planning-a-human-head-transplant/. 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. 1992. Job Training Partnership Act: Actions Needed to Improve Participant Support Services. 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

Bryan, D. 2015. Facilitators or impediments to college readiness. 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

Saslow, L. 2007. Board Renewing Searches By Trained Dogs at School. New York Times, 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zinner, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Zinner, 2003; Kiberstis & Roberts, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kiberstis & Roberts, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Piro et al., 2006)

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

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