How to format your references using the International Journal of Forest Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Forest Engineering. 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

Tannock IF. 2015. Cancer: Resistance through repopulation. Nature. 517(7533):152–153.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fields RD, Stevens-Graham B. 2002. New insights into neuron-glia communication. Science. 298(5593):556–562.

A journal article with 3 authors

Niethammer P, Bastiaens P, Karsenti E. 2004. Stathmin-tubulin interaction gradients in motile and mitotic cells. Science. 303(5665):1862–1866.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Knowles TP, Fitzpatrick AW, Meehan S, Mott HR, Vendruscolo M, Dobson CM, Welland ME. 2007. Role of intermolecular forces in defining material properties of protein nanofibrils. Science. 318(5858):1900–1903.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matignon R. 2007. Data Mining Using SAS® Enterprise Miner^TM. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Savage MK, Rhoades DA, Smith EGC, Gerstenberger MC, Vere-Jones D, editors. 2010. Seismogenesis and Earthquake Forecasting: The Frank Evison Volume II. Basel: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Misztal PK. 2016. Measuring Rapid Changes in Plant Volatiles at Different Spatial Levels. In: Blande JD, Glinwood R, editors. Deciphering Chemical Language of Plant Communication. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 95–114.

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 International Journal of Forest Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. What Is The Largest Known Object In The Universe? IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-largest-object-universe/

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. 1985. Information on the Energy Information Administration’s Financial Reporting System. Washington, DC: 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

Magner KA. 2010. Evaluation of admissions criteria and practices with regards to successful online learning styles and characteristics [Doctoral dissertation]. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Coscarelli J, Sisario B. 2017. Prince’s Estate Sues Over a New EP. New York Times.:C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tannock 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Fields and Stevens-Graham 2002; Tannock 2015).

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

Two authors: (Fields and Stevens-Graham 2002)
Three or more authors: (Knowles et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Forest Engineering
Abbreviation	Int. J. Forest Eng.
ISSN (print)	1494-2119
ISSN (online)	1913-2220
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