How to format your references using the Soil Science Society of America Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Soil Science Society of America Journal. 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

Wang, J. 2011. Genome-sequencing anniversary. Personal genomes: for one and for all. Science 331(6018): 690.

A journal article with 2 authors

Waterhouse, P.M., and A.F. Fusaro. 2006. Plant science. Viruses face a double defense by plant small RNAs. Science 313(5783): 54–55.

A journal article with 3 authors

Westover, K.D., D.A. Bushnell, and R.D. Kornberg. 2004. Structural basis of transcription: separation of RNA from DNA by RNA polymerase II. Science 303(5660): 1014–1016.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Kuwayama, Y., K. Hirose, N. Sata, and Y. Ohishi. 2005. The pyrite-type high-pressure form of silica. Science 309(5736): 923–925.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Collier, C.G. 2016. Hydrometeorology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Mitsikostas, D.D., and K. Paemeleire, editors. 2016. Pharmacological Management of Headaches. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Dąbrowski, S., P. Bazydło, and R. Szewczyk. 2015. Functional Performance Testing of Routing Devices in Networks Based on IQMESH Protocol. In: Szewczyk, R., Zieliński, C., and Kaliczyńska, M., editors, Progress in Automation, Robotics and Measuring Techniques: Volume 3 Measuring Techniques and Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham. p. 39–47

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 Science Society of America Journal.

Blog post

Taub, B. 2016. Incredible Photos Show Uncontacted Amazonian Tribe Living Perilously Close To Illegal Miners. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/incredible-photos-show-uncontacted-amazonian-tribe-living-perilously-close-to-illegal-miners/ (accessed 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. 2006. Telecommunications: Options for and Barriers to Spectrum Reform. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fisher, E. 2012. Suffering God.

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. 2016. Review: In ‘Southwest of Salem,’ 4 Women Convicted of Sexual Assault Fight for Justice. New York Times: C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wang, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Waterhouse and Fusaro, 2006; Wang, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Waterhouse and Fusaro, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Kuwayama et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Soil Science Society of America Journal
Abbreviation	Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J.
ISSN (print)	0361-5995
Scope	Soil Science