How to format your references using the Soil Biology and Biochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 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

Lewis, R., 2008. A career at the museum. Nature 451, 218.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lu, E.T., Love, S.G., 2005. Gravitational tractor for towing asteroids. Nature 438, 177–178.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fu, Q., Saltsburg, H., Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, M., 2003. Active nonmetallic Au and Pt species on ceria-based water-gas shift catalysts. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301, 935–938.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Choi, D.H., Wang, Q., Azuma, Y., Majima, Y., Warner, J.H., Miyata, Y., Shinohara, H., Kitaura, R., 2013. Fabrication and characterization of fully flattened carbon nanotubes: a new graphene nanoribbon analogue. Scientific Reports 3, 1617.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adams, D.J., Dyson, P.J., Tavener, S.J., 2005. Chemistry in Alternative Reaction Media. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Talbi, E.-G., Liardet, P., Collet, P., Lutton, E., Schoenauer, M. (Eds.), 2006. Artificial Evolution: 7th International Conference, Evolution Artificielle, EA 2005, Lille, France, October 26-28, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Chistyakov, V.V., 2013. Modular Contractions and Their Application, in: Goldengorin, B., Kalyagin, V.A., Pardalos, P.M. (Eds.), Models, Algorithms, and Technologies for Network Analysis: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Network Analysis, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 65–92.

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 Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Antarctic Glacier Collapse Means Sea-Level Rise Now ‘Unstoppable’ [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/antarctic-glacier-collapse-means-sea-level-rise-now-‘unstoppable’/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1972. Need for Improved Coordination of Federally Assisted Student Aid Programs in Institutions of Higher Education (No. B-16403(1)). 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

Alaiyegbami, A.O., 2014. Porescale Investigation of Gas Shales Reservoir Description by Comparing the Barnett, Mancos, and Marcellus Formation (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Reichardt, K., 2008. Favorites, From Some Insiders. New York Times MT12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lewis, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Lu and Love, 2005; Lewis, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Lu and Love, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Choi et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Abbreviation	Soil Biol. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	0038-0717
Scope	Soil Science Microbiology