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.

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Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.
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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
Greenspan NS (2001) You can’t have it all. Nature 409:137
A journal article with 2 authors
Nishide H, Oyaizu K (2008) Materials science. Toward flexible batteries. Science 319:737–738
A journal article with 3 authors
Lee S-H, Kwan AC, Dan Y (2014) Interneuron subtypes and orientation tuning. Nature 508:E1-2
A journal article with 5 or more authors
Chen P, Xiong Z, Luo J, et al (2002) Interaction of hydrogen with metal nitrides and imides. Nature 420:302–304

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Gustafsson F (2001) Adaptive Filtering and Change Detection. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK
An edited book
Mattheou D (ed) (2010) Changing Educational Landscapes: Educational Policies, Schooling Systems and Higher Education - a comparative perspective. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht
A chapter in an edited book
Culea M, Culea E, Cozar O, et al (2009) Diagnosis and Control by Using Biomarkers. In: Vlad S, Ciupa RV, Nicu AI (eds) International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care through Technology: 23–26 September, 2009, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 19–24

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
Andrew E (2015) Human Trial Shows Engineered Immune Cells Could Help Fight Leukemia. In: IFLScience. 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 (1992) Toward the Moon, Asteroids, and Mars. 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
Villa J (2017) Multicultural Training for Mental Health Professionals Working in the Juvenile Justice System. 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
Murphy MJO (2015) Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times. New York Times C21

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Greenspan 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Greenspan 2001; Nishide and Oyaizu 2008).

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

  • Two authors: (Nishide and Oyaizu 2008)
  • Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Soils and Sediments
AbbreviationJ. Soils Sediments
ISSN (print)1439-0108
ISSN (online)1614-7480
ScopeEarth-Surface Processes
Stratigraphy

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