How to format your references using the Geoderma citation style

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

Giles, J., 2001. Think like a bee. Nature 410, 510–512.

A journal article with 2 authors

May, M., Brody, H., 2015. Nature index 2015 Asia-Pacific. Nature 519, S49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mora, C., Rollo, A., Tittensor, D.P., 2013. Comment on “Can we name Earth’s species before they go extinct?” Science 341, 237.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, X., Fu, W., Palivan, C.G., Meier, W., 2013. Natural channel protein inserts and functions in a completely artificial, solid-supported bilayer membrane. Sci. Rep. 3, 2196.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Homès, B., 2012. Fundamentals of Software Testing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Tilkemeier, P.L., Hendel, R.C., Heller, G.V., Case, J.A. (Eds.), 2016. Quality Evaluation in Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Imaging. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Ruschhaupt, A., Muga, J.G., Hegerfeldt, G.C., 2009. Detector Models for the Quantum Time of Arrival, in: Muga, G., Ruschhaupt, A., Campo, A. del (Eds.), Time in Quantum Mechanics - Vol. 2, Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 65–96.

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 Geoderma.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Five Things To Think About When Choosing A University Course [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/five-things-think-about-when-choosing-university-course/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2011. Aviation Safety: Status of FAA’s Actions to Oversee the Safety of Composite Airplanes (No. GAO-11-849). 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

Ackerman, G.L., 2009. Information technology in the K–12 classroom: Curriculum and instruction reflecting emerging capacity and paradigms (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Brantley, B., 2016. Theater; Angel Introduces Bats to Trojans. New York Times AR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Giles, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Giles, 2001; May and Brody, 2015).

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

Two authors: (May and Brody, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geoderma
Abbreviation	Geoderma
ISSN (print)	0016-7061
Scope	Soil Science