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

Mervis, J., 2004. Department of Energy. Nominee scores cabinet hat trick. Science 306, 2018.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dimond, A., Fraser, P., 2013. Molecular biology. Long noncoding RNAs Xist in three dimensions. Science 341, 720–721.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alves, J.F., Lada, C.J., Lada, E.A., 2001. Internal structure of a cold dark molecular cloud inferred from the extinction of background starlight. Nature 409, 159–161.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Syvitski, J.P.M., Vörösmarty, C.J., Kettner, A.J., Green, P., 2005. Impact of humans on the flux of terrestrial sediment to the global coastal ocean. Science 308, 376–380.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zlokarnik, M., 2006. Scale-Up in Chemical Engineering. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Buczkó, K., Korponai, J., Padisák, J., Starratt, S.W. (Eds.), 2009. Palaeolimnological Proxies as Tools of Environmental Reconstruction in Fresh Water, Developments in Hydrobiology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Dizon, E.Z., 2016. Underwater Archaeology of the San Diego a 1600 Spanish Galleon in the Philippines, in: Wu, C. (Ed.), Early Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Maritime Archaeological Perspective. Springer, Singapore, pp. 91–102.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. How To Make Sure You’ll Have Tall, Healthy Kids [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, 2010. Statewide Transportation Planning: Surveys of State Departments of Transportation and Regional Planning and Development Organizations (GAO-11-78SP, December 2010), an E-supplement to GAO-11-77 (No. GAO-11-78SP). 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

Pokhrel, P., 2010. Towards improved identification of spatially-distributed rainfall runoff models (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

Billard, M., 2010. Fitting More Into a Pop-Up. New York Times E9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mervis, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Dimond and Fraser, 2013; Mervis, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Dimond and Fraser, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Syvitski et al., 2005)

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