How to format your references using the Journal of Wood Science citation style

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

Lehmann FO (2001) Matching spiracle opening to metabolic need during flight in Drosophila. Science 294:1926–1929

A journal article with 2 authors

Keefer DK, Larsen MC (2007) Geology. Assessing landslide hazards. Science 316:1136–1138

A journal article with 3 authors

Watson EB, Thomas JB, Cherniak DJ (2007) 40Ar retention in the terrestrial planets. Nature 449:299–304

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yang W, Yuan Y, Zong Y, et al (2014) Preliminary study on retinal vascular and oxygen-related changes after long-term silicone oil and foldable capsular vitreous body tamponade. Sci Rep 4:5272

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Clark G (2014) The Making of a World City. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Arena P (2008) Dynamical Systems, Wave-Based Computation and Neuro-Inspired Robots. Springer, Vienna

A chapter in an edited book

Santos NC, Melo C, Pont F, et al (2008) High-resolution Spectroscopy of Faint Stars with Transiting Planets. In: Santos NC, Pasquini L, Correia ACM, Romaniello M (eds) Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics: Proceedings of the ESO/Lisbon/Aveiro Conference held in Aveiro, Portugal, 11–15 September 2006. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 21–24

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 Wood Science.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Caterpillar uses toxic breath as a defense mechanism. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/caterpillar-uses-toxic-breath-defense-mechanism/. 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 (2001) Telecommuting: Overview of Challenges Facing Federal Agencies. 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

Minger L (2017) Examining Education Leadership Communication Practices around Basic and Advanced Skill Sets: A Multiple Case Study. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Sisario B (2016) Johnny Cash Has Now Become the Poet in Black. New York Times C1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Wood Science
Abbreviation	J. Wood Sci.
ISSN (print)	1435-0211
ISSN (online)	1611-4663
Scope	Biomaterials