How to format your references using the Arboricultural Journal: The International Journal of Urban Forestry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Arboricultural Journal: The International Journal of Urban Forestry. 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

Stremlau, M. (2007). GE Prize-winning essay. Why Old World monkeys are resistant to HIV-1. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5856), 1565–1566.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bishop, N. A., & Guarente, L. (2007). Two neurons mediate diet-restriction-induced longevity in C. elegans. Nature, 447(7144), 545–549.

A journal article with 3 authors

Young, B. A., Gruber, T. M., & Gross, C. A. (2004). Minimal machinery of RNA polymerase holoenzyme sufficient for promoter melting. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5662), 1382–1384.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Jiang, Z. H., Lin, L., Ma, D., Yun, S., Werner, D. H., Liu, Z., & Mayer, T. S. (2014). Broadband and wide field-of-view plasmonic metasurface-enabled waveplates. Scientific Reports, 4, 7511.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gwynne, P. (2017). World Religions in Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Swamy, P. P., & Guru, D. S. (Eds.). (2013). Multimedia Processing, Communication and Computing Applications: Proceedings of the First International Conference, ICMCCA, 13-15 December 2012 (Vol. 213). Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Fortunato, H., Schäfer, P., & Blaschek, H. (2013). Growth Rates, Age Determination, and Calcification Levels in Flustra foliacea (L.) (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata): Preliminary Assessment. In A. Ernst, P. Schäfer, & J. Scholz (Eds.), Bryozoan Studies 2010 (pp. 59–74). Springer.

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 Arboricultural Journal: The International Journal of Urban Forestry.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2015, October 19). Russia And Europe Collaborate On A Joint Mission To The Moon. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/russia-and-europe-joint-mission-moon/

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). Railroad Regulation: Changes in Freight Railroad Rates from 1997 through 2000 (GAO-02-524). 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

Keohane, M. F. (2010). Virtual team communication: Perceptions and experiences influencing the use of videoconferencing technology [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Rojas, R., & Fitzsimmons, E. G. (2016, February 5). Crane Collapse Kills Man on Busy Manhattan Block. New York Times, A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stremlau, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bishop & Guarente, 2007; Stremlau, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Bishop & Guarente, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Jiang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Arboricultural Journal: The International Journal of Urban Forestry
Abbreviation	Arboric. J.
ISSN (print)	0307-1375
ISSN (online)	2168-1074
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science