How to format your references using the Forest Policy and Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Forest Policy and Economics. 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

Alford, M.H., 2003. Redistribution of energy available for ocean mixing by long-range propagation of internal waves. Nature 423, 159–162.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dillin, A., Kelly, J.W., 2007. Medicine. The yin-yang of sirtuins. Science 317, 461–462.

A journal article with 3 authors

Michael, H.A., Mulligan, A.E., Harvey, C.F., 2005. Seasonal oscillations in water exchange between aquifers and the coastal ocean. Nature 436, 1145–1148.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Isomura, N., Yamauchi, C., Takeuchi, Y., Takemura, A., 2013. Does dopamine block the spawning of the acroporid coral Acropora tenuis? Sci. Rep. 3, 2649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chassaing, R., 2004. Digital Signal Processing and Applications with the C6713 and C6416 DSK. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Pandurangan, G., Anil Kumar, V.S., Ming, G., Liu, Y., Li, Y. (Eds.), 2010. Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications: 5th International Conference, WASA 2010, Beijing, China, August 15-17, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Boender, C.G.E., Bovenberg, A.L., van Hoogdalem, S., Nijman, T.E., 2007. Optimal risk-sharing in private and collective pension contracts, in: Steenbeek, O., Lecq, F. van der (Eds.), Costs and Benefits of Collective Pension Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 75–93.

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 Forest Policy and Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Biofilms – The Bacterial Wound Communities That Protect Themselves From Attack [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/biofilms-bacterial-wound-communities-protect-themselves-attack/ (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, 1978. Review of Army’s Efforts To Develop TACFIRE (No. LCD-78-116). 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

Kim, H., 2008. Prediction and Elimination of Galling in Forming Galvanized Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Medina, J., 2012. In California, City Teeters On Brink of Bankruptcy. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alford, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Alford, 2003; Dillin and Kelly, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Dillin and Kelly, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Isomura et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Forest Policy and Economics
Abbreviation	For. Policy Econ.
ISSN (print)	1389-9341
Scope	Forestry Economics and Econometrics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Sociology and Political Science