How to format your references using the Annals of Forest Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Forest 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

von Boehmer H (2006) Immunology. Thoracic thymus, exclusive no longer. Science 312:206–207

A journal article with 2 authors

Müller UK, Kranenbarg S (2004) Physiology. Power at the tip of the tongue. Science 304:217–219

A journal article with 3 authors

Psaltis D, Quake SR, Yang C (2006) Developing optofluidic technology through the fusion of microfluidics and optics. Nature 442:381–386

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Feng Y, Wei H, Yang S, et al (2014) Competitive growth mechanisms of AlN on Si (111) by MOVPE. Sci Rep 4:6416

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knudsen S (2005) Cancer Diagnostics with DNA Microarrays. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Turck C (ed) (2009) Biomarkers for Psychiatric Disorders. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Poggi I, Vincze L (2009) Gesture, Gaze and Persuasive Strategies in Political Discourse. In: Kipp M, Martin J-C, Paggio P, Heylen D (eds) Multimodal Corpora: From Models of Natural Interaction to Systems and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 73–92

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 Annals of Forest Science.

Blog post

Luntz S (2016) Australia’s “No Jab, No Pay” Vaccination Policy Seems To Be Working. 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 (1997) Small Business Administration: Better Planning and Controls Needed for Information Systems. 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

Wolfe CJ (2012) Dimensions of Purchasing Social Responsibility in Sustainable Supply Chain Organizations. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Chan S (2017) BBC Publishes Pay of Top Stars, Revealing Gender and Racial Gaps. New York Times A9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (von Boehmer 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Müller and Kranenbarg 2004; von Boehmer 2006).

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

Two authors: (Müller and Kranenbarg 2004)
Three or more authors: (Feng et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Forest Science
Abbreviation	Ann. For. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1286-4560
ISSN (online)	1297-966X
Scope	Forestry Ecology