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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Osborne, J., 2010. Arguing to learn in science: the role of collaborative, critical discourse. Science 328, 463–466.

A journal article with 2 authors

Friedman, A., Perrimon, N., 2006. A functional RNAi screen for regulators of receptor tyrosine kinase and ERK signalling. Nature 444, 230–234.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schön, J.H., Meng, H., Bao, Z., 2001. Self-assembled monolayer organic field-effect transistors. Nature 413, 713–716.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cho, S., Kim, K.-D., Heo, J., Lee, J.Y., Cha, G., Seo, B.Y., Kim, Y.D., Kim, Y.S., Choi, S.-Y., Lim, D.C., 2014. Role of additional PCBM layer between ZnO and photoactive layers in inverted bulk-heterojunction solar cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 4306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zinkin, J., 2013. Rebuilding Trust in Banks. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Kibos, A.S., Knight, B.P., Essebag, V., Fishberger, S.B., Slevin, M., Țintoiu, I.C. (Eds.), 2014. Cardiac Arrhythmias: From Basic Mechanism to State-of-the-Art Management. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Sebestyén, T., Varga, A., 2013. A Novel Comprehensive Index of Network Position and Node Characteristics in Knowledge Networks: Ego Network Quality, in: Scherngell, T. (Ed.), The Geography of Networks and R&D Collaborations, Advances in Spatial Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 71–97.

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., 2016. How To Beat The Casino – Legally [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-beat-casino-legally/ (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, 2002. Commercial Aviation: Air Service Trends At Small Communities Since October 2000 (No. GAO-02-432). 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

Anderson, P.M., 2012. Persistent Genomic Consequences of Prenatal Nicotine Exposure Measured in Adolescent Rat Brain (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Marx, L., 2014. Making Headlines With Their Vows. New York Times ST13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Osborne, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Friedman and Perrimon, 2006; Osborne, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Friedman and Perrimon, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Cho 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