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 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

Cuk, M., 2007. Excitation of lunar eccentricity by planetary resonances. Science 318, 244.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thompson, J.N., Cunningham, B.M., 2002. Geographic structure and dynamics of coevolutionary selection. Nature 417, 735–738.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nowak, M.A., Komarova, N.L., Niyogi, P., 2001. Evolution of universal grammar. Science 291, 114–118.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Philippa, B., Stolterfoht, M., Burn, P.L., Juška, G., Meredith, P., White, R.D., Pivrikas, A., 2014. The impact of hot charge carrier mobility on photocurrent losses in polymer-based solar cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 5695.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van Gumster, J., Shimonski, R., 2010. GIMP Bible. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA.

An edited book

Andres, E., Damiand, G., Lienhardt, P. (Eds.), 2005. Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery: 12th International Conference, DGCI 2005, Poitiers, France, April 13-15, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Dimmock, D.P., 2013. Deoxyguanosine Kinase, in: Wong, L.-J.C. (Ed.), Mitochondrial Disorders Caused by Nuclear Genes. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 91–102.

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

Hale, T., 2017. Tilikum, The Orca From The Documentary BlackFish, Has Died [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, 1992. Attack Warning: Status of the Survivable Communications Integration System (No. IMTEC-92-61BR). 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

Sokolov, C.K., 2017. Teacher Engagement In Grades 4-8 (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Wines, M., Williams, T., 2014. Huge Leak of Coal Ash Slows at North Carolina Power Plant. New York Times A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cuk, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Cuk, 2007; Thompson and Cunningham, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Thompson and Cunningham, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Philippa 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