How to format your references using the International Journal of Wildland Fire citation style

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

Coates AJ (2011) Planetary science. Io’s tortured interior. Science (New York, N.Y.) 332(6034), 1157–1158.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trent JM, Touchman JW (2007) Cancer. The gene topography of cancer. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318(5853), 1079–1080.

A journal article with 3 authors

Matsunami H, Montmayeur JP, Buck LB (2000) A family of candidate taste receptors in human and mouse. Nature 404(6778), 601–604.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dejean A, Solano PJ, Ayroles J, Corbara B, Orivel J (2005) Insect behaviour: arboreal ants build traps to capture prey. Nature 434(7036), 973.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rosenbaum J, Pearl J (2009) ‘Investment Banking’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

Demchenko AP (Ed) (2009) ‘Introduction to Fluorescence Sensing’ (Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht).

A chapter in an edited book

Liu J, del Barco E, Hill S (2014) A Microscopic and Spectroscopic View of Quantum Tunneling of Magnetization. In ‘Molecular Magnets: Physics and Applications.’ NanoScience and Technology. (Eds J Bartolomé, F Luis, JF Fernández) pp. 77–110. (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

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 Wildland Fire.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Three-Quarters Of Endangered Species Are Threatened Through Overexploitation By Humans. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/threequarters-of-endangered-species-are-threatened-through-overexploitation-by-humans/ [accessed 30 October 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 (2007) Information Technology: Immigration and Customs Enforcement Needs to Fully Address Significant Infrastructure Modernization Program Management Weaknesses. GAO-07-565. 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

Nguyen T (2012) Nail technician students’ awareness of some health effects of long-term exposure to chemicals used in nail salons and their understanding of health protection. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Kelly S (2002) Op-Art. New York Times A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coates 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Trent and Touchman 2007; Coates 2011).

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

Two authors: (Trent and Touchman 2007)
Three or more authors: (Dejean et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Wildland Fire
Abbreviation	Int. J. Wildland Fire
ISSN (print)	1049-8001
ISSN (online)	1448-5516
Scope	Forestry Ecology