How to format your references using the Annals of Forest Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Forest Science. 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 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

King G (2011) Ensuring the data-rich future of the social sciences. Science 331:719–721

A journal article with 2 authors

DePaolo DJ, Manga M (2003) Geology. Deep origin of hotspots--the mantle plume model. Science 300:920–921

A journal article with 3 authors

Rao CV, Wolf DM, Arkin AP (2002) Control, exploitation and tolerance of intracellular noise. Nature 420:231–237

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wiita AP, Perez-Jimenez R, Walther KA, et al (2007) Probing the chemistry of thioredoxin catalysis with force. Nature 450:124–127

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Curry SH, Whelpton R (2010) Drug Disposition and Pharmacokinetics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Gerbarg D (ed) (2009) Television Goes Digital. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Zhao BG (2008) Pine Wilt Disease in China. In: Zhao BG, Futai K, Sutherland JR, Takeuchi Y (eds) Pine Wilt Disease. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 18–25

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 Annals of Forest Science.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2015) According To A New Report, You Need To Know About Chemical Sex. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/chemsex-should-be-public-health-priority/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2002) Information Technology: OMB Leadership Critical to Making Needed Enterprise Architecture and E-government Progress. 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

Gnoinska MK (2010) Poland and the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia, 1949-1965. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Vecsey G (2013) Thrown by Life’s Curveballs, A Star Missed the Signals. New York Times D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (King 2011).
This sentence cites two references (DePaolo and Manga 2003; King 2011).

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

Two authors: (DePaolo and Manga 2003)
Three or more authors: (Wiita et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Forest Science
Abbreviation	Ann. For. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1286-4560
ISSN (online)	1297-966X
Scope	Forestry Ecology