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

Shlesinger MF (2000) Statistical mechanics. Exploring phase space. Nature 405, 135, 137.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lindenbach BD, Rice CM (2005) Unravelling hepatitis C virus replication from genome to function. Nature 436, 933–938.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rhew RC, Miller BR, Weiss RF (2000) Natural methyl bromide and methyl chloride emissions from coastal salt marshes. Nature 403, 292–295.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen L, Fan J, Chen H, Meng Z, Chen Z, Wang P, Liu L (2014) The IL-8/CXCR1 axis is associated with cancer stem cell-like properties and correlates with clinical prognosis in human pancreatic cancer cases. Scientific Reports 4, 5911.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kerzner H (2017) ‘Project Management Case Studies.’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ)

An edited book

Becvar DS (Ed) (2013) ‘Handbook of Family Resilience.’ (Springer: New York, NY)

A chapter in an edited book

Sabouri V, Femenías P (2013) Two Case Studies in Energy Efficient Renovation of Multi-family Housing; Explaining Robustness as a Characteristic to Assess Long-Term Sustainability. ‘Sustainability in Energy and Buildings: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference in Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (SEB´12)’. (Eds A Hakansson, M Höjer, RJ Howlett, LC Jain) Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies. pp. 45–57. (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

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

O`Callaghan J (2016) These Two New Exoplanets Might Be The Youngest Worlds We’ve Ever Found. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/these-two-new-exoplanets-might-be-the-youngest-worlds-weve-ever-found/.

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 (2015) Special Education: More Flexible Spending Requirement Could Mitigate Unintended Consequences While Protecting Services. U.S. Government Printing Office, GAO-16-2. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Salinsky JL (2012) Local disaster preparedness for the disabled population: Are we ready? Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Hodara S (2016) Front Porches and Easy Strolls. New York Times RE8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shlesinger 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Shlesinger 2000; Lindenbach and Rice 2005).

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

Two authors: (Lindenbach and Rice 2005)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2014)

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)