How to format your references using the Soil Research citation style

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

Hamilton C (2013) No, we should not just ‘at least do the research’. Nature 496, 139.

A journal article with 2 authors

Falkowski PG, Isozaki Y (2008) Geology. The story of O2. Science (New York, NY) 322, 540–542.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rogers RR, Krause DW, Curry Rogers K (2003) Cannibalism in the Madagascan dinosaur Majungatholus atopus. Nature 422, 515–518.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stankovich S, Dikin DA, Dommett GHB, Kohlhaas KM, Zimney EJ, Stach EA, Piner RD, Nguyen ST, Ruoff RS (2006) Graphene-based composite materials. Nature 442, 282–286.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Martin BR (2006) ‘Nuclear and Particle Physics.’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK)

An edited book

Bonato A, Graham FC, Prałat P (Eds) (2014) ‘Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph: 11th International Workshop, WAW 2014, Beijing, China, December 17-18, 2014, Proceedings.’ (Springer International Publishing: Cham)

A chapter in an edited book

Øvrelid E, Bygstad B (2016) Extending e-Health Infrastructures with Lightweight IT. ‘Nordic Contributions in IS Research: 7th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2016 and IFIP8.6 2016, Ljungskile, Sweden, August 7-10, 2016, Proceedings’. (Ed U Lundh Snis) Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. pp. 43–56. (Springer International Publishing: Cham)

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 Research.

Blog post

Andrews R (2017) A Continental-Sized Volcanic Eruption Caused Snowball Earth. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/continentalsized-volcanic-eruption-snowball-earth/.

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 (1976) Acquisition of Compact and Subcompact Passenger Vehicles To Conserve Fuel. U.S. Government Printing Office, 089569. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Liburd-Shaddai JL (2012) The experiences of remedial instructors at one urban community college: A case study. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Greenhouse L (2006) Supreme Court Takes Up Global Warming Case. New York Times A2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hamilton 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Falkowski and Isozaki 2008; Hamilton 2013).

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

Two authors: (Falkowski and Isozaki 2008)
Three or more authors: (Stankovich et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Soil Research
Abbreviation	Soil Res.
ISSN (print)	1838-675X
ISSN (online)	1838-6768
Scope	Soil Science Earth-Surface Processes Environmental Science (miscellaneous)