How to format your references using the Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. 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

[1]

Donath J. Computer science. Virtually trustworthy. Science 2007;317:53–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Cook-Andersen H, Wilkinson MF. Molecular biology: Splicing does the two-step. Nature 2015;521:300–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Shen Y, Knoll AH, Walter MR. Evidence for low sulphate and anoxia in a mid-Proterozoic marine basin. Nature 2003;423:632–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Dang W, Steffen KK, Perry R, Dorsey JA, Johnson FB, Shilatifard A, et al. Histone H4 lysine 16 acetylation regulates cellular lifespan. Nature 2009;459:802–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Manuele FA. Advanced Safety Management Focusing on Z10 and Serious Injury Prevention. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

[1]

Bartel A, Clemens M, Günther M, ter Maten EJW, editors. Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering: SCEE 2014, Wuppertal, Germany, July 2014. vol. 23. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

François D, Pineau A, Zaoui A. Viscoelasticity. In: Pineau A, Zaoui A, editors. Mechanical Behaviour of Materials: Volume 1: Micro- and Macroscopic Constitutive Behaviour, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012, p. 445–505.

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 Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. New Horizons’ Team Announces Their Next Target. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-horizons-next-target/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Legislation Amending the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Riley JM. Was Sloth the Ultimate Slow Food? An Archaeological Examination of Padre Nuestro Cavern, Dominican Republic. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 2017.

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

[1]

Wilson M. New Jersey Man Is Found Guilty on All Counts in Chelsea Bomb Attack. New York Times 2017:A19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Abbreviation	Soil Dyn. Earthq. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0267-7261
Scope	Soil Science Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology Civil and Structural Engineering