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

Sharp, T., 2014. Earth science. Bridgmanite--named at last. Science 346, 1057–1058.

A journal article with 2 authors

Silphaduang, U., Noga, E.J., 2001. Peptide antibiotics in mast cells of fish. Nature 414, 268–269.

A journal article with 3 authors

Heiling, A.M., Herberstein, M.E., Chittka, L., 2003. Pollinator attraction: Crab-spiders manipulate flower signals. Nature 421, 334.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Klekociuk, A.R., Brown, P.G., Pack, D.W., ReVelle, D.O., Edwards, W.N., Spalding, R.E., Tagliaferri, E., Yoo, B.B., Zagari, J., 2005. Meteoritic dust from the atmospheric disintegration of a large meteoroid. Nature 436, 1132–1135.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prutchi, D., Norris, M., 2004. Design and Development of Medical Electronic Instrumentation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Griffiths, P., 2013. Rational Homotopy Theory and Differential Forms, 2nd ed. 2013. ed, Progress in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Qiu, X., Zhou, J., Huang, X., 2011. An Effective Feature Selection Method for Text Categorization, in: Huang, J.Z., Cao, L., Srivastava, J. (Eds.), Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 15th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2011, Shenzhen, China, May 24-27, 2011, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 50–61.

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. Regular Coffee Consumption May Help Protect Against A Form Of Skin Cancer [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/regular-coffee-consumption-may-help-protect-against-form-skin-cancer/ (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. Transportation Security: Actions Needed to Address Limitations in TSA’s Transportation Worker Security Threat Assessments and Growing Workload (No. GAO-12-60). 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

Corbin-Staton, A.P., 2009. Contexts of parental involvement: An interpretive synthesis of qualitative literature using the meta-interpretation method (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Crow, K., 2002. A Little Deli Goes the Way Of So Many In the City. New York Times 147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sharp, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Sharp, 2014; Silphaduang and Noga, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Silphaduang and Noga, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Klekociuk et al., 2005)

About the journal

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