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

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

Barish B (2012) Physics: Let US physics commit to collaboration. Nature 491:522

A journal article with 2 authors

Wardil L, Hauert C (2014) Origin and structure of dynamic cooperative networks. Sci Rep 4:5725

A journal article with 3 authors

Bence NF, Sampat RM, Kopito RR (2001) Impairment of the ubiquitin-proteasome system by protein aggregation. Science 292:1552–1555

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Moon RT, Bowerman B, Boutros M, Perrimon N (2002) The promise and perils of Wnt signaling through beta-catenin. Science 296:1644–1646

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Strohfeldt KA (2015) Essentials of Inorganic Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Bonvalet C (2015) Renewing the Family: A History of the Baby Boomers. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Lange C, Kuchenbuch A (2006) Integrated Controlling Based on Material and Energy Flow Analysis — A Case Study in Foundry Industries. In: Wagner B, Enzler S (eds) Material Flow Management: Improving Cost Efficiency and Environmental Performance. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg, pp 91–129

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 Forestry Research.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Astonishingly Well-Preserved 10,000 Year-Old Woolly Rhinoceros Calf Found. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-complete-woolly-rhinoceros-calf-found/. 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 (2009) Highway Trust Fund Expenditures on Purposes Other than Construction and Maintenance of Highways and Bridges during Fiscal Years 2004-2008. 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

Cooper J (2017) Numerical Modeling of Fluid Flow in a Porous Media Using Python. 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

Greenhouse L (2007) Justices Hear Arguments on Internet Pornography Law. New York Times A18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barish 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Barish 2012; Wardil and Hauert 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wardil and Hauert 2014)
Three or more authors: (Moon et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Forestry Research
Abbreviation	J. For. Res.
ISSN (print)	1007-662X
ISSN (online)	1993-0607
Scope	Forestry