How to format your references using the Journal of Soils and Sediments citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Soils and Sediments. 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

Gershon D (2003) Complex political, ethical and legal issues surround research on human embryonic stem cells. Nature 422:928–929

A journal article with 2 authors

Ma J, Karaman I (2010) Materials science. Expanding the repertoire of shape memory alloys. Science 327:1468–1469

A journal article with 3 authors

Werner SC, Ody A, Poulet F (2014) The source crater of martian shergottite meteorites. Science 343:1343–1346

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Darveau C-A, Suarez RK, Andrews RD, Hochachka PW (2002) Allometric cascade as a unifying principle of body mass effects on metabolism. Nature 417:166–170

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Archer RD (2002) Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, USA

An edited book

Abraham D, Handler C, Dashwood M, Coghlan G (eds) (2012) Translational Vascular Medicine: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Brusov P, Filatova T, Orekhova N, Eskindarov M (2015) Bankruptcy of the Famous Trade-Off Theory. In: Filatova T, Orekhova N, Eskindarov M (eds) Modern Corporate Finance, Investments and Taxation. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 47–72

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 Soils and Sediments.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2017) How To Study Europa’s Interior Without Drilling. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-to-study-europa-s-interior-without-drilling/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2004) Electronic Government: Initiatives Sponsored by the Office of Management and Budget Have Made Mixed Progress. 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

Sugawara Y (2013) When the Spaniels conquered Central America: Academic English and first year composition instruction. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Hodgman J (2017) Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM22

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon 2003; Ma and Karaman 2010).

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

Two authors: (Ma and Karaman 2010)
Three or more authors: (Darveau et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Soils and Sediments
Abbreviation	J. Soils Sediments
ISSN (print)	1439-0108
ISSN (online)	1614-7480
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Stratigraphy