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

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

Grant, P.M., 2007. Obituary: Chauncey Starr (1912-2007). Nature 447, 789.

A journal article with 2 authors

Long, J.L., Chhetri, D.K., 2015. Tissue engineering. Restoring voice. Science 350, 908–909.

A journal article with 3 authors

Su, Q.-P., Yang, C.-P., Zheng, S.-B., 2014. Fast and simple scheme for generating NOON states of photons in circuit QED. Sci. Rep. 4, 3898.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shen, Y., Chen, Y., Zou, H., Yuan, J., 2014. A fiber-based quasi-continuous-wave quantum key distribution system. Sci. Rep. 4, 4563.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Good, P.I., 2006. A Manager’s Guide to the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hodler, J., Schulthess, G.K.V., Zollikofer, C.L. (Eds.), 2006. Diseases of The Abdomen and Pelvis: Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Techniques 38th International Diagnostic Course in Davos (IDKD) Davos, April 1–7, 2006. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

Aronoff, C.E., Ward, J.L., 2011. Finding and Choosing an Advisor, in: Ward, J.L. (Ed.), How to Choose and Use Advisors: Getting the Best Professional Family Business Advice. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, pp. 57–64.

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 - Journal of Soil Ecology.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. Tasmanian Devil Milk May Be A Source Of New Antibiotics [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, 2012. Commercial Space Launches: FAA Should Update How It Assesses Federal Liability Risk (No. GAO-12-899). 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

Jackson, M., 2012. A Bibliometric Analysis of Green Building Literature (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, 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

Otis, J., 2017. She Waited Years to Enter the Ring, but Life Forced Her to Step Out. New York Times A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grant, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Grant, 2007; Long and Chhetri, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Long and Chhetri, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Shen et al., 2014)

About the journal

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