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

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

Willerroider M (2004) Making the move into drug sales. Nature 430:486–487

A journal article with 2 authors

Sykora S, Becker KW (2013) Heavy fermion properties of the Kondo Lattice model. Sci Rep 3:2691

A journal article with 3 authors

Hanada K-I, Yewdell JW, Yang JC (2004) Immune recognition of a human renal cancer antigen through post-translational protein splicing. Nature 427:252–256

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Castillo PE, Schoch S, Schmitz F, et al (2002) RIM1alpha is required for presynaptic long-term potentiation. Nature 415:327–330

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hersent O (2010) IP Telephony. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Jordan R (ed) (2006) Surface-Initiated Polymerization II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Cotofrei P, Stoffel K (2009) Time Granularity in Temporal Data Mining. In: Abraham A, Hassanien A-E, Leon F. de Carvalho AP de, Snášel V (eds) Foundations of Computational, IntelligenceVolume 6: Data Mining. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 67–96

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 Journal of Forest Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) The Anthropocene Has Been Shaped By The Media And Our Digital Lives. In: IFLScience. 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 (1998) U.S. Postal Service: Postal and Telecommunications Sector Representation in International Organizations. 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

Friedman DE (2017) Characterization of Organic Matter in Suspended Sediments Via Pyrolysis and Oxidation. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Kercher S (2017) First Tinder, Then Marriage? New York Times D5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Willerroider 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Willerroider 2004; Sykora and Becker 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sykora and Becker 2013)
Three or more authors: (Castillo et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Forest Research
Abbreviation	J. Forest Res.
ISSN (print)	1341-6979
ISSN (online)	1610-7403
Scope	Forestry