How to format your references using the Pedosphere citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pedosphere. 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	Download the output style file
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

Chong Y. 2013. Optical devices: photonic insulators with a twist. Nature. 496: 173–174.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ferrara N, Kerbel RS. 2005. Angiogenesis as a therapeutic target. Nature. 438: 967–974.

A journal article with 3 authors

Erickson GM, Rogers KC, Yerby SA. 2001. Dinosaurian growth patterns and rapid avian growth rates. Nature. 412: 429–433.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jayawardhana S, Rosa L, Juodkazis S, Stoddart PR. 2013. Additional enhancement of electric field in surface-enhanced Raman Scattering due to Fresnel mechanism. Sci Rep. 3: 2335.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hauser G. 2008. Hygienegerechte Apparate Und Anlagen. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Bentley PJ, Lee D, Jung S (eds.). 2008. Artificial Immune Systems: 7th International Conference, ICARIS 2008, Phuket, Thailand, August 10-13, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Van Biesen W. 2016. Where Is the Evidence? Best Practice in Spine Surgery. In van de Kelft E (ed.), Surgery of the Spine and Spinal Cord: A Neurosurgical Approach. Cham, Springer International Publishing. pp. 77–89.

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 Pedosphere.

Blog post

Davis J. 2017. How Whales Became The Largest Animals Ever To Live. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available online at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-whales-became-the-largest-animals-ever-to-live/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. 1998. F-22 Aircraft: Progress of the Engineering and Manufacturing Development Program. In. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Colna KE. 2017. Latitudinal Position and Trends of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and its Relationship with Upwelling in the Southern Caribbean Sea and Global Climate Indices. Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL, University of South Florida.

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 MJO. 2015. Friday File. New York Times. C36.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chong, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Ferrara and Kerbel, 2005; Chong, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ferrara and Kerbel, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Jayawardhana et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pedosphere
ISSN (print)	1002-0160
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