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

Jansen LET (2012) Genetics. Sowing the seeds of centromeres. Science (New York, NY) 335, 299–300.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwarzkopf DS, Rees G (2010) Neuroscience. Brain activity to rely on? Science (New York, NY) 327, 43–44.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gavriil FP, Kaspi VM, Woods PM (2002) Magnetar-like X-ray bursts from an anomalous X-ray pulsar. Nature 419, 142–144.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Niemela JJ, Skrbek L, Sreenivasan KR, Donnelly RJ (2000) Turbulent convection at very high Rayleigh numbers. Nature 404, 837–840.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marvin S (2010) ‘Dictionary of Scientific Principles.’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ)

An edited book

Berry MW, Castellanos M (Eds) (2008) ‘Survey of Text Mining II: Clustering, Classification, and Retrieval.’ (Springer: London)

A chapter in an edited book

Abadi MHB, Oskoei MA (2015) Effects of Mirrors in Mobile Robot Navigation Based on Omnidirectional Vision. ‘Intelligent Robotics and Applications: 8th International Conference, ICIRA 2015, Portsmouth, UK, August 24-27, 2015, Proceedings, Part III’. (Eds H Liu, N Kubota, X Zhu, R Dillmann, D Zhou) Lecture Notes in Computer Science. pp. 37–48. (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

O`Callaghan J (2017) Boeing Unveils Moon Space Station That Could Send Astronauts To Mars. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/boeing-unveils-moon-space-station-that-could-send-astronauts-to-mars/.

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 (1994) Amtrak: Key Decisions Need to Be Made in the Face of Deteriorating Financial Condition. U.S. Government Printing Office, T-RCED-94-186. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vu MK (2015) Reducing mental health provider burnout through wellness: A grant proposal. 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

Schwirtz M (2017) The Top Uniformed Officer on Rikers Island Steps Down, Ahead of Schedule. New York Times A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jansen 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Schwarzkopf and Rees 2010; Jansen 2012).

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

Two authors: (Schwarzkopf and Rees 2010)
Three or more authors: (Niemela et al. 2000)

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)