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

Bassham, D.C., 2015. Plant biology: Pigments on the move. Nature 526, 644–645.

A journal article with 2 authors

Agarwal, N., Bishai, W.R., 2010. Microbiology. Subversion from the sidelines. Science 327, 417–418.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aarts, H., Custers, R., Marien, H., 2008. Preparing and motivating behavior outside of awareness. Science 319, 1639.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, T., Zhang, Z., Liao, F., Cai, Q., Li, Y., Lee, S.-T., Shao, M., 2014. The effect of dielectric constants on noble metal/semiconductor SERS enhancement: FDTD simulation and experiment validation of Ag/Ge and Ag/Si substrates. Sci. Rep. 4, 4052.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown, C., 2012. Mastering Elliott Wave Principle. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

González Alonso, I., 2011. Service Robotics within the Digital Home: Applications and Future Prospects, Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Zandvliet, D.B., Holmes, M., Starzner, M., 2011. Seaquaria in Schools, in: Yore, L.D., Flier-Keller, E.V. der, Blades, D.W., Pelton, T.W., Zandvliet, D.B. (Eds.), Pacific CRYSTAL Centre for Science, Mathematics, and Technology Literacy: Lessons Learned. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 83–97.

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. Fly Through Space with this Awesome Interactive Video [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/fly-through-space-free-awesome-interactive-video/ (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, 1990. Highway Safety: Fatalities in Light Trucks and Vans (No. PEMD-91-8). 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

Zhang, X., 2012. Electroweak interactions and the delta resonance in a chiral effective field theory for nuclei (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Murphy, M.J.O., 2015. The Best-Seller List 55 Years Ago. New York Times C24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bassham, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Agarwal and Bishai, 2010; Bassham, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Agarwal and Bishai, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

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