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soil-biology-and-biochemistry
Use when targeting Soil Biology & Biochemistry or deciding whether a soil-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the soil-process-mechanism bar, evidence and data-reporting expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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# Soil Biology & Biochemistry (soil-biology-and-biochemistry)
## Journal positioning
Soil Biology & Biochemistry (SBB), published by Elsevier, is the leading journal for the
**mechanisms of soil biological and biochemical processes**: soil organic matter dynamics,
microbial ecology and function, nutrient cycling, soil carbon, extracellular enzymes, and
the biogeochemical processes that soil biota drive. Its defining expectation is **mechanistic
process understanding** — evidence about how soil organisms and reactions govern a process,
not a descriptive inventory of what is present. A soil survey, a descriptive community
census with no process link, or a management trial whose contribution is an agronomic outcome
rather than a soil mechanism is a poor fit. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection /
re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current author guidelines. Before
submitting, re-check the live SBB author guidance.