期刊名称：PEDOBIOLOGIA
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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PEDOBIOLOGIA
Soil biology is a rapidly developing field in ecology and ecosystem studies. Analysis of biological structures, interactions, functions, and processes in soil is fundamental for understanding natural and managed terrestrial ecosystems. Such an understanding is a prerequisite for appropriate soil management. Pedobiologia publishes papers in the field of soil biology (soil zoology and soil microbiology). The scope of this journal consists in fundamental and applied aspects of soil biology. Structural characteristics of the community of soil biota, interactions of soil organisms and the effect of organisms on soil processes are key focal points. Preferentially experimental work is published but more theoretical, descriptive or methodological studies and review articles are also included. |
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Instructions to Authors
Pedobiologia publishes experimental studies in the field of soil zoology and soil microbiology; more theoretical or empirical papers and review articles are also welcome. Manuscripts should present new scientific findings that have not been published previously. Short papers reporting important new findings might be published as short-communications. Manuscripts may be submitted to each of the editors. They will be reviewed by two referees.
Manuscripts should be written in English. Authors writing a paper in an unfamiliar language should have it checked by a native speaker prior to submission. Manuscripts should be submitted in final form and prepared in accordance with the journal's accepted form and content. Manuscripts should be typed double-spaced throughout with a right margin of 3.5 cm.
Only for accepted manuscripts send an additional floppy disk. When providing electronic text files please specify the text editor used. For graphs and figures us eps format.
Submission of a manuscript implies that the submitted work has not been published before (except as part of a thesis or lecture note or report, or in the form of an abstract); that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors as well as by the authorities at the institute where the work has been carried out; that written permission of copyright holders was obtained by the authors for material used from other copyrighted sources; that, if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors hand over the transferable copyrights of the accepted manuscript to the publisher; and that the manuscript or parts thereof will thus not be published elsewhere in any language without the consent of the copyright holder. Copyrights include, without spatial or timely limitation, the mechanical, electronic and visual reproduction and distribution; electronic storage and retrieval; and all other forms of electronic publication or any other types of publication including all subsidiary rights.
The first page (title page) should contain the full title of the paper, the names - initial(s) and surname(s) - of the authors, name of laboratory where the study was carried out. Please indicate the author to whom proofs and other communications are to be sent. The second page of the manuscript is its Summary which presents briefly the major results and conclusions of the paper in a language as non-technical as possible. Following the summary, up to six key words should be supplied, indicating the scope of the paper.
The main portion of the paper should be divided into the sections Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion followed by Acknowledgements and References. The sections can be divided into sub-sections but the use of numerous sub-sections should be avoided. Each section and sub-section must bear a heading (flush to the left margin). They should not be numbered. The title of the paper, the names of authors and the headings of sections (including Summary and Key words) should be in bold face, headings of sub-sections should be in italics. Except for the Key words headings should be typed on a separate line. In the text usage of italics should be restricted to species and genus names. Only SI units should be used. Short-communications should be of a maximum length of 2 printed pages including tables and figures. A separate Summary should be provided but the following text should not be subdivided in sections except for Acknowledgements and References.
Reference to the literature in the text should be by the author's surname with the year of publication in brackets. Where there are two authors the names should be linked by "&". Where there are more than two authors the reference should be quoted - first author followed by "et al." (not in italics). If references are given in brackets the author's surname and the year of publication should be separated by a space; if there is more than one reference of the same author years of publication should be separated by commas. References to publications of different authors should be separated by semicolons.
The references at the end of the paper should list in alphabetical order under the first author's name only works referred to in the text. They should be cited as in the following examples:
Anderson, J.M. (1978) Competition between two unrelated species of soil Cryptostigmata (Acari) in experimental microcosms. Journal of Animal Ecology 47, 787-804.
Coleman, D.C., Ingham, R.E., McClellan, J.F., Trofymow, J.A. (1984) Soil nutrient transformations in the rhizosphere via animal-microbial interactions. In: Anderson, J.M., Rayner, A.D.M., Walton, D.W.H. (eds) Invertebrate-microbial interactions. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 35-58.
Dunger, W., Fiedler, H.J. ( 1989) Methoden der Bodenbiologie. Gustav Fischer, Jena.
Tables should be printed with a concise explanatory caption and each column should carry a separate heading. Additional explanations should be given as footnotes. In the table format only horizontal lines need to be used and the number of these should be kept to a minimum. Each table should by typed on a separate sheet and submitted separately from the text. Figures should be used with discretion and are only justified if they clarify or reduce the text. Data should be presented only once in a graph or a table. Original figures should be approximately twice their final size but must not exceed the size of A4 paper. The figures should be submitted separately from the text. The author's name and the proper orientation of the figure should be indicated on the back of each figure. A brief descriptive legend should be provided for each figure; the legends should be typed on a separate page. Figures and tables should always be referred to in the text (Fig. 1 - Table 1 etc.) and numbered with arabic numerals. The author should mark in the margin of the manuscripts where figures and tables are to be inserted.
There are no page charges and fifty offprints of each paper are supplied free of charge. Additional offprints may be ordered when proofs are returned.
Until publication of the print edition, corrected proofs will be available at online first (www.urbanfischer.de/journals/pedo).
Editorial Board
John Lussenhop, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 W. Taylor, Room 3262, Chicago, IL 60607-7060, USA, e-mail: luss@uic.edu
J¨¹rgen Schauermann, Institut f¨¹r Zoologie und Anthropologie, Abteilung Ökologie, Universität Göttingen, Berliner Straße 28, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany, Phone: +49 (0)551/39 54 43, Fax: +49 (0)551/39 54 48, e-mail: jschaue@gwdg.de
Stefan Scheu, Institut f¨¹r Zoologie, Fachbereich Biologie (10), Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstraße 3, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany, Phone: +49 (0)6151/16 30 06, Fax +49 (0)6151/16 61 11, e-mail: scheu@bio.tu-darmstadt.de
Editorial Board
Jonathan M. Anderson, Exeter, UK
Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier, Ottawa, Canada
David C. Coleman, Athens, GA, USA
David A. Crossley, Jr., Athens, GA, USA
James P. Curry, Dublin, Ireland
Wolfram Dunger, Görlitz, Germany
Clive A. Edwards, Columbus, OH, USA
Bryan S. Griffiths, Dundee, UK
Veikko Huhta, Jyväskyl? Finland
Nobuhiro Kaneko, Yokohama, Japan
John Klironomos, Guelph, ON, Canada
Philippe Lebrun, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Hans-Petter P. Leinaas, Oslo, Norway
Malcolm Luxton, Cardiff , UK
Andrew Moldenke, Corvallis, OR, USA
Dennis Parkinson, Calgary, Canada
Trevor G. Piearce, Lancaster, UK
Peter C. de Ruiter, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Josef Rusek, esk?Budjovice, Czech Republic
Matthias Schaefer, Göttingen, Germany
Tim R. Seastedt, Boulder, CO, USA
Nico M. van Straalen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alexei V. Tiunov, Moscow, Russia
David A. Wardle, Umea. Sweden
Gerd Weigmann, Berlin, Germany
Gregor W. Yeates, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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