How to format your references using the Geoderma Regional citation style

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

Erwin, D.H., 2005. Macroevolution. Seeds of diversity. Science 308, 1752–1753.

A journal article with 2 authors

Woolhouse, M., Donaldson, A., 2001. Managing foot-and-mouth. Nature 410, 515–516.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pellizzoni, L., Yong, J., Dreyfuss, G., 2002. Essential role for the SMN complex in the specificity of snRNP assembly. Science 298, 1775–1779.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jacobs, H.O., Tao, A.R., Schwartz, A., Gracias, D.H., Whitesides, G.M., 2002. Fabrication of a cylindrical display by patterned assembly. Science 296, 323–325.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wolf, E.L., 2012. Nanophysics of Solar and Renewable Energy. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Pedersen, T., Bals, L., Ørberg Jensen, P.D., Larsen, M.M. (Eds.), 2013. The Offshoring Challenge: Strategic Design and Innovation for Tomorrow’s Organization. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Cui, X., 2015. Three-Dimensional Bioprinting in Regenerative Medicine, in: Turksen, K. (Ed.), Bioprinting in Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 109–122.

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 Regional.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2015. Study Finds Pork And Human DNA In Vegetarian Hot Dogs [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1991. ADP Procurements: GSA Needs to Improve Its Review Process to Enhance Its ADP Oversight (No. IMTEC-92-7). 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

Jansson, A., 2017. Stratigraphy, Landscape Evolution, and Past Environments at the Billy Big Spring Site, Montana (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, 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

Poniewozik, J., 2016. A TV Show That’s Amazing, Not Necessarily Good. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Erwin, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Erwin, 2005; Woolhouse and Donaldson, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Woolhouse and Donaldson, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Jacobs et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geoderma Regional
ISSN (print)	2352-0094
Scope	Soil Science