How to format your references using the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (JSWC). 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

Moore, P. 2005. Cell biology: ion channels and stem cells. Nature 438(7068):699–704.

A journal article with 2 authors

Erwin, D. H., and D. C. Krakauer. 2004. Evolution. Insights into innovation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 304(5674):1117–1119.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miner-Williams, W. M., P. J. Moughan, and M. F. Fuller. 2013. Analysis of an ethanol precipitate from ileal digesta: evaluation of a method to determine mucin. Scientific reports 3 (November 6, 2013):3145.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Peplowski, P. N., L. G. Evans, S. A. Hauck 2nd, T. J. McCoy, W. V. Boynton, J. J. Gillis-Davis, D. S. Ebel, J. O. Goldsten, D. K. Hamara, D. J. Lawrence, R. L. McNutt Jr, L. R. Nittler, S. C. Solomon, E. A. Rhodes, A. L. Sprague, R. D. Starr, and K. R. Stockstill-Cahill. 2011. Radioactive elements on Mercury’s surface from MESSENGER: implications for the planet’s formation and evolution. Science (New York, N.Y.) 333(6051):1850–1852.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cliteur, P. 2010. The Secular Outlook. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Parab, J. S. 2008. Practical Aspects of Embedded System Design using Microcontrollers. (S. A. Shinde, V. G. Shelake, R. K. Kamat, and G. M. Naik, Eds.). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Gharibreza, M., and M. A. Ashraf. 2014. Soil Erosion Rate and Nutrient Loss at the Bera Lake Catchment. In Applied Limnology: Comprehensive View from Watershed to Lake, ed. M. A. Ashraf, 107–134. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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 Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.

Blog post

Fang, J. 2015, April 14. Curiosity Rover Finds Evidence Of Liquid Water On Mars. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/weather-data-curiosity-rover-suggests-briny-water-possible-mars/.

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. 1989. Motor Vehicle Safety: Selected Rulemakings by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Washington, DC: 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

Williams, K. 2014. The lexicographic treatment of color terms. Bloomington, IN: Indiana 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

Barron, J. 2017, July 4. In East Hampton, an Airport Is Viewed as a Roaring, Round-the-Clock Nuisance. New York Times (July 4, 2017):A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moore 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Erwin and Krakauer 2004, Moore 2005).

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

Two authors: (Erwin and Krakauer 2004)
Three or more authors: (Peplowski et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Abbreviation	J. Soil Water Conserv.
ISSN (print)	0022-4561
ISSN (online)	1941-3300
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Soil Science Nature and Landscape Conservation Water Science and Technology