How to format your references using the Pedobiologia - International Journal of Soil Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pedobiologia - International Journal of Soil Biology. 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

Hanson, B., 2005. Sumatra-Andaman earthquake. Learning from natural disasters. Introduction. Science 308, 1125.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hörber, J.K.H., Miles, M.J., 2003. Scanning probe evolution in biology. Science 302, 1002–1005.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pinker, R.T., Zhang, B., Dutton, E.G., 2005. Do satellites detect trends in surface solar radiation? Science 308, 850–854.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rosenflanz, A., Frey, M., Endres, B., Anderson, T., Richards, E., Schardt, C., 2004. Bulk glasses and ultrahard nanoceramics based on alumina and rare-earth oxides. Nature 430, 761–764.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

De Larminat, P., 2014. Climate Change. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Shimjith, S.R., 2013. Modeling and Control of a Large Nuclear Reactor: A Three-Time-Scale Approach, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Grollmann, P., Hayward, G., 2009. Case Studies of TVET Research, in: Rauner, F., Maclean, R. (Eds.), Handbook of Technical and Vocational Education and Training Research. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 611–695.

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 Pedobiologia - International Journal of Soil Biology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2016. African Countries Square Up For Battle Over Future Of Ivory Trade Ban [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, 1970. Economies Obtainable by Increasing Days at Sea of Oceanographic Research and Survey Ships (No. B-133188). 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

Nguyen, M.S., 2009. Solid families: Community-based program for pregnant and parenting adolescents (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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., 2017. This Barber? He Has Demons. 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 (Hanson, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Hanson, 2005; Hörber and Miles, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Hörber and Miles, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Rosenflanz et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pedobiologia - International Journal of Soil Biology
Abbreviation	Pedobiologia (Jena)
ISSN (print)	0031-4056
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Soil Science