How to format your references using the SOIL citation style

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

Van Noorden, R.: Production: Beyond sticky tape, Nature, 483, S32-3, 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Singleton, A. B. and Traynor, B. J.: Genetics. For complex disease genetics, collaboration drives progress, Science, 347, 1422–1423, 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wagner, C. E., Harmon, L. J., and Seehausen, O.: Ecological opportunity and sexual selection together predict adaptive radiation, Nature, 487, 366–369, 2012.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Zheng, Z., Sheng, B., Gao, C., Zhang, H., Qin, T., Ma, C., and Xu, P.: Highly stereoselective biosynthesis of (R)-α-hydroxy carboxylic acids through rationally re-designed mutation of D-lactate dehydrogenase, Sci. Rep., 3, 3401, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bill Huitt, W. M.: Bioprocessing Piping and Equipment Design, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

Gliozzo, A.: Semantic Domains in Computational Linguistics, edited by: Strapparava, C., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, IX, 131 p pp., 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Both, F., Gerritsen, C., Hoogendoorn, M., and Treur, J.: Model-Based Default Refinement of Partial Information within an Ambient Agent, in: Constructing Ambient Intelligence: AmI 2007 Workshops Darmstadt, Germany, November 7-10, 2007 Revised Papers, edited by: Mühlhäuser, M., Ferscha, A., and Aitenbichler, E., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 34–43, 2008.

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.

Blog post

Supernova Imposter Has Been Faking It For Longer Than We Thought: https://www.iflscience.com/space/supernova-imposter-has-been-faking-it-for-longer-than-we-thought/, last access: 30 October 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: Transit Grants: Need for Improved Predictability, Data, and Monitoring in Application Processing, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Schreiber, J. S.: Discursive constructions of decline: Narratives of illness and financial stress among residents in assisted living, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2016.

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.: Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman, New York Times, 27th January, MM24, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Van Noorden, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Singleton and Traynor, 2015; Van Noorden, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Singleton and Traynor, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Zheng et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	SOIL
ISSN (print)	2199-3971
ISSN (online)	2199-398X
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