How to format your references using the Soil Processes citation style

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

Nathan, C. Antibiotics at the Crossroads. Nature 2004, 431, 899–902.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maloy, K.J.; Powrie, F. Intestinal Homeostasis and Its Breakdown in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Nature 2011, 474, 298–306.

A journal article with 3 authors

Akil, H.; Martone, M.E.; Van Essen, D.C. Challenges and Opportunities in Mining Neuroscience Data. Science 2011, 331, 708–712.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shin, J.-S.; Ebersold, M.; Pypaert, M.; Delamarre, L.; Hartley, A.; Mellman, I. Surface Expression of MHC Class II in Dendritic Cells Is Controlled by Regulated Ubiquitination. Nature 2006, 444, 115–118.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Graham, L. Internal Control Audit and Compliance; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2015; ISBN 9781119029540.

An edited book

Buchholz, B.M. Smart Grids – Fundamentals and Technologies in Electricity Networks; Styczynski, Z., Ed.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014; ISBN 9783642451195.

A chapter in an edited book

Ahonen, P.; Alahuhta, P.; Daskala, B.; Delaitre, S.; Hert, P.D.; Lindner, R.; Maghiros, I.; Moscibroda, A.; Schreurs, W.; Verlinden, M. Threats and Vulnerabilities. In Safeguards in a World of Ambient Intelligence; Alahuhta, P., Daskala, B., Delaitre, S., Hert, P.D., Lindner, R., Maghiros, I., Moscibroda, A., Schreurs, W., Verlinden, M., Wright, D., Friedewald, M., Punie, Y., Gutwirth, S., Vildjiounaite, E., Eds.; The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2010; pp. 143–178 ISBN 9789048187867.

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 Processes.

Blog post

Hale, T. This Blue or Green Spectrum Illusion Depends On How Your Brain Perceives Color (accessed on 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 Talking Books for the Blind; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2007;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Song, H.-J. Strategic Constraints of Economic Interdependence: South Korea’s Changing Strategy in the Face of a Rising China. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 2014.

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

Kenigsberg, B. The Wasted Times. New York Times 2016, C13.

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 Processes
ISSN (online)	2411-5126
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