How to format your references using the Wood Science and Technology citation style

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

Bretag AH (2007) Stem cell treatment of dystrophic dogs. Nature 450:E23; discussion E23-5

A journal article with 2 authors

Dupuy TJ, Kraus AL (2013) Distances, luminosities, and temperatures of the coldest known substellar objects. Science 341:1492–1495

A journal article with 3 authors

Foran E, Weiner S, Fine M (2013) Biogenic fish-gut calcium carbonate is a stable amorphous phase in the gilt-head seabream, Sparus aurata. Sci Rep 3:1700

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Seidenbecher T, Laxmi TR, Stork O, Pape H-C (2003) Amygdalar and hippocampal theta rhythm synchronization during fear memory retrieval. Science 301:846–850

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hunter DA (2009) A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Karasavvoglou A, Aranđelović Z, Marinković S, Polychronidou P (eds) (2016) The First Decade of Living with the Global Crisis: Economic and Social Developments in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Cumming JJ, Van der Kleij FM (2016) Effective Enactment of Assessment for Learning and Student Diversity in Australia. In: Laveault D, Allal L (eds) Assessment for Learning: Meeting the Challenge of Implementation. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 55–73

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 Wood Science and Technology.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) Spiral Galaxies Aren’t The Only Ones With Spiral Shapes. 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 (2010) License Suspensions for Nondriving Offenses: Practices in Four States That May Ease the Financial Impact on Low-Income Individuals. 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 HT (2013) The ugly duckling: Juvenile delinquents in non-delinquent networks. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Saslow L (2007) A Virus Endangers Trout at Big Hatchery. New York Times 14LI2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bretag 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bretag 2007; Dupuy and Kraus 2013).

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

Two authors: (Dupuy and Kraus 2013)
Three or more authors: (Seidenbecher et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Wood Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Wood Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0043-7719
ISSN (online)	1432-5225
Scope	Forestry Plant Science Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering General Materials Science