How to format your references using the iForest citation style

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

Ledford H (2015). Epigenetics: The genome unwrapped. Nature. 528: S12-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Merad M, Salmon H (2015). Cancer: A dendritic-cell brake on antitumour immunity. Nature. 523: 294–295.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rauzi M, Lenne P-F, Lecuit T (2010). Planar polarized actomyosin contractile flows control epithelial junction remodelling. Nature. 468: 1110–1114.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yang H, Li Y, Li T, Xu M, Chen Y, Wu C, Dang X, Liu Y (2014). Multifunctional core/shell nanoparticles cross-linked polyetherimide-folic acid as efficient Notch-1 siRNA carrier for targeted killing of breast cancer. Scientific Reports. 4: 7072.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pachamanova DA, Fabozzi FJ (2016). Portfolio Construction and Analytics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mangard S (Ed.) (2013). Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications: 11th International Conference, CARDIS 2012, Graz, Austria, November 28-30, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Vol. 7771, pp. XII, 297 p. 98 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Marcon C, Mancin M (2016). Empirical Evidence on Current Integrated Reporting Practices. In: Integrated Reporting: A New Accounting Disclosure (C Mio ed). Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

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 iForest.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014, December 24). How Smartphone Use Is Changing The Way Thumbs and Brains Communicate. Retrieved 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-smartphone-use-changing-way-thumbs-and-brains-communicate/

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 (1999). Month In Review, July 1999: Reports, Testimony, Correspondence, and Other Publications No. OPA-99-10. 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

Pope C (2010). Words in the Garden Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Roach M (2013, March 25). The Marvels in Your Mouth. New York Times, p. D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ledford 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ledford 2015, Merad & Salmon 2015).

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

Two authors: (Merad & Salmon 2015)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	iForest
Abbreviation	IForest
ISSN (print)	1971-7458
Scope	Forestry Ecology Nature and Landscape Conservation