How to format your references using the European Journal of Wood and Wood Products citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Wood and Wood Products. 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

Cummins PR (2007) The potential for giant tsunamigenic earthquakes in the northern Bay of Bengal. Nature 449:75–78

A journal article with 2 authors

Kinbara K, Aida T (2006) Chemistry. From electron pump to proton channel. Science 313:51–52

A journal article with 3 authors

Tanimoto H, Heisenberg M, Gerber B (2004) Experimental psychology: event timing turns punishment to reward. Nature 430:983

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kumar R, Chaudhary K, Gupta S, et al (2013) CancerDR: cancer drug resistance database. Sci Rep 3:1445

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anson EM (2014) Alexander’s Heirs. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Yan L (ed) (2016) Operative Techniques in Liver Resection, 1st ed. 2016. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Emani C (2014) The Effects of Transgenic Crops on Non-target Organisms. In: Ahuja MR, Ramawat KG (eds) Biotechnology and Biodiversity. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 59–66

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 European Journal of Wood and Wood Products.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Fat Cells Help Protect Against Infections. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fat-cells-help-protect-against-infections/. 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 (1994) Airlift Requirements: Commercial Freighters Can Help Meet Requirements at Greatly Reduced Costs. 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

Gurska DP (2017) Peering Down the Bottomless Well: Myth in Thomas Mann’s Joseph Tetralogy. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Winerip M, Schwirtz M (2015) A New York Inmate Dies, and No One Is Punished. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cummins 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Kinbara and Aida 2006; Cummins 2007).

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

Two authors: (Kinbara and Aida 2006)
Three or more authors: (Kumar et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Wood and Wood Products
ISSN (print)	0018-3768
ISSN (online)	1436-736X
Scope	Forestry General Materials Science