How to format your references using the International Soil and Water Conservation Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Soil and Water Conservation Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Gould, P. L. (2008). Physics. Cold molecules beat the shakes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5899), 203–204.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crain, J. N., & Pierce, D. T. (2005). End states in one-dimensional atom chains. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5710), 703–706.

A journal article with 3 authors

Righton, D., Metcalfe, J., & Connolly, P. (2001). Fisheries. Different behaviour of North and Irish Sea cod. Nature, 411(6834), 156.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rocha, A. G., Franco, A., Krezel, A. M., Rumsey, J. M., Alberti, J. M., Knight, W. C., Biris, N., Zacharioudakis, E., Janetka, J. W., Baloh, R. H., Kitsis, R. N., Mochly-Rosen, D., Townsend, R. R., Gavathiotis, E., & Dorn, G. W., 2nd. (2018). MFN2 agonists reverse mitochondrial defects in preclinical models of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A. Science (New York, N.Y.), 360(6386), 336–341.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, C. L. (2009). Basic Process Measurements. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Finkl, C. W., & Makowski, C. (Eds.). (2016). Seafloor Mapping along Continental Shelves: Research and Techniques for Visualizing Benthic Environments (1st ed. 2016, Vol. 13). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Gong, Z., Lin, Y., & Yao, T. (2013). Complementary Preference Relations of Triangular Fuzzy Numbers. In Y. Lin & T. Yao (Eds.), Uncertain Fuzzy Preference Relations and Their Applications (pp. 45–74). Springer.

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 International Soil and Water Conservation Research.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, May 26). New “Natural Disasters” Report Reveals Billions Of People Worldwide At Risk. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1977). Excess Classroom Space--A Case for Better Planning (GGD-76-73). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Allen, S. D. (2014). Putting out fires: How communication professionals understand and practice conflict resolution [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Tomasky, M. (2017, October 30). The Silence of the Democrats. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gould, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Crain & Pierce, 2005; Gould, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Crain & Pierce, 2005)
Three authors: (Righton et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Rocha et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Soil and Water Conservation Research
Abbreviation	Int. Soil Water Conserv. Res.
ISSN (print)	2095-6339
Scope