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

Pratt ST (2014) Ultrafast dynamics. Charge transfer goes the distance. Science 345:267–268

A journal article with 2 authors

Flowers RM, Farley KA (2013) Response to Comments on “Apatite 4He/3He and (U-Th)/He Evidence for an Ancient Grand Canyon.” Science 340:143

A journal article with 3 authors

He X, Gao L, Ma N (2013) One-step instant synthesis of protein-conjugated quantum dots at room temperature. Sci Rep 3:2825

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Aspuru-Guzik A, Dutoi AD, Love PJ, Head-Gordon M (2005) Simulated quantum computation of molecular energies. Science 309:1704–1707

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chartered Institute of Building (2016) Code of Practice for Programme Management in the Built Environment. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Kim T-H, Pal SK, Grosky WI, et al (eds) (2010) Signal Processing and Multimedia: International Conferences, SIP and MulGraB 2010, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2010, Jeju Island, Korea, December 13-15, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Franco A, Correia M, Cruz J (2015) Reasoning with Uncertainty in Biomedical Models. In: Pereira F, Machado P, Costa E, Cardoso A (eds) Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2015, Coimbra, Portugal, September 8-11, 2015. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 41–53

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 (2015) Cosmic Winds Shape Dust Clouds At Galactic Edge. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/cosmic-winds-shape-dust-clouds-galactic-edge/. 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 (1995) HUD-Assisted Renters. 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

Carley R (2013) Evaluation of the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and hurricanes on wildfires in southeast Louisiana. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State 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

Schwartz ND (2011) A Seer on Banks Raises a Furor on Bonds. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pratt 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Flowers and Farley 2013; Pratt 2014).

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

Two authors: (Flowers and Farley 2013)
Three or more authors: (Aspuru-Guzik et al. 2005)

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