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

Batista, V.S., 2009. Chemistry. Energy flow under control. Science 326, 245–246.

A journal article with 2 authors

Frank, S.A., Nowak, M.A., 2003. Cell biology: Developmental predisposition to cancer. Nature 422, 494.

A journal article with 3 authors

Walsh, K.J., Richardson, D.C., Michel, P., 2008. Rotational breakup as the origin of small binary asteroids. Nature 454, 188–191.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fiorelli, L.E., Ezcurra, M.D., Hechenleitner, E.M., Argañaraz, E., Taborda, J.R.A., Trotteyn, M.J., von Baczko, M.B., Desojo, J.B., 2013. The oldest known communal latrines provide evidence of gregarism in Triassic megaherbivores. Sci. Rep. 3, 3348.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghavami, M., Michael, L.B., Kohno, R., 2006. Ultra Wideband Signals and Systems in Communication Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Ferro, N. (Ed.), 2014. Bridging Between Information Retrieval and Databases: PROMISE Winter School 2013, Bressanone, Italy, February 4-8, 2013. Revised Tutorial Lectures, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Hirao, M., Ogi, H., 2010. Resonance Ultrasound Microscopy for Imaging Young’s Modulus of Solids, in: Wu, T.-T., Ma, C.-C. (Eds.), IUTAM Symposium on Recent Advances of Acoustic Waves in Solids: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Recent Advances of Acoustic Waves in Solids, Taipei, Taiwan, May 25-28, 2009, IUTAM Bookseries. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 45–52.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Iron Levels Could Help Predict Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/iron-levels-could-help-predict-risk-alzheimers-disease/ (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, 1999. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: DEA Has Developed Plans and Established Controls for Business Continuity Planning (No. AIMD-00-8). 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

Hill, L., 2015. Unique forms of knowledge and curriculum in hip-hop pedagogy (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

Dargis, M., Poniewozik, J., 2017. Not Exactly Your Simple Sequel. 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 (Batista, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Batista, 2009; Frank and Nowak, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Frank and Nowak, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Fiorelli et al., 2013)

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