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

Brinster, R.L., 2007. Male germline stem cells: from mice to men. Science 316, 404–405.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hetherington, A.M., Woodward, F.I., 2003. The role of stomata in sensing and driving environmental change. Nature 424, 901–908.

A journal article with 3 authors

Germain, R.N., Robey, E.A., Cahalan, M.D., 2012. A decade of imaging cellular motility and interaction dynamics in the immune system. Science 336, 1676–1681.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Krasilnikov, A.S., Xiao, Y., Pan, T., Mondragón, A., 2004. Basis for structural diversity in homologous RNAs. Science 306, 104–107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cowan, J.P., 2016. The Effects of Sound on People. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Beltrán, M., Knottenbelt, W., Bradley, J. (Eds.), 2015. Computer Performance Engineering: 12th European Workshop, EPEW 2015, Madrid, Spain, August 31 - September 1, 2015, Proceedings, 1st ed. 2015. ed, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Kitagawa, G., 2008. Prospective Scientific Methodology in Knowledge Society, in: Washio, T., Suzuki, E., Ting, K.M., Inokuchi, A. (Eds.), Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 12th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2008 Osaka, Japan, May 20-23, 2008 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 30–39.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. We Can Turn CO2 In The Air Into New Materials – But Don’t Expect That To Stop Climate Change [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/we-can-turn-co2-air-new-materials-don-t-expect-stop-climate-change/ (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, 1986. Computer Buys: Air Force Logistics Modernization Program Should Comply With Brooks Act (No. IMTEC-86-16). 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

Coulibaly, I., 2017. Influence of Gender and Age on the Performance of a PBIS program: Quantitative Analysis of Secondary Data from a Midwestern Suburban Public Middle School (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Feeney, K., 2008. Thinking Big On Making Little Cakes. New York Times NJ12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brinster, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Brinster, 2007; Hetherington and Woodward, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Hetherington and Woodward, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Krasilnikov et al., 2004)

About the journal

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