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

Lawler A (2006) 2007 U.S. budget. NASA budget soars as shuttle lands. Science 313:280

A journal article with 2 authors

Schiermeier Q, Wegner R (2002) Foreign researchers turn their backs on Germany. Nature 415:945

A journal article with 3 authors

Raymond SN, Mandell AM, Sigurdsson S (2006) Exotic Earths: forming habitable worlds with giant planet migration. Science 313:1413–1416

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wikramanayake AH, Hong M, Lee PN, et al (2003) An ancient role for nuclear beta-catenin in the evolution of axial polarity and germ layer segregation. Nature 426:446–450

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Youssef HA (2015) Machining of Stainless Steels and Super Alloys. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Gullo A (ed) (2014) Anaesthesia, Pharmacology, Intensive Care and Emergency A.P.I.C.E: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting - International Symposium on Critical Care Medicine. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

Moraitis A, Stratakis CA (2016) The Role of Genetics in the Development of Familial Nonmedullary Thyroid Cancer. In: Wartofsky L, Van Nostrand D (eds) Thyroid Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management. Springer, New York, NY, pp 43–70

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) How Do You Weigh The Milky Way? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-do-you-weigh-your-galaxy/. 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 (2008) Nanotechnology: Accuracy of Data on Federally Funded Environmental, Health, and Safety Research Could Be Improved. 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

Lowrance TL (2017) Exploring the Four Modes of Organizational Forgetting in an Organization Post Acquisition. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Shpigel B (2016) After Simmering and Stewing, Brady Returns to Roast the Browns. New York Times D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lawler 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier and Wegner 2002; Lawler 2006).

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

Two authors: (Schiermeier and Wegner 2002)
Three or more authors: (Wikramanayake et al. 2003)

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