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

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

Zatz, M. 2005. Global voices of science. When science is not enough: fighting genetic disease in Brazil. Science 308(5718): 55–57.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trent, J.M., and Touchman, J.W. 2007. Cancer. The gene topography of cancer. Science 318(5853): 1079–1080.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nesvorný, D., Vokrouhlický, D., and Bottke, W.F. 2006. The breakup of a main-belt asteroid 450 thousand years ago. Science 312(5779): 1490.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ding, M., Chao, D., Wang, G., and Shen, K. 2007. Spatial regulation of an E3 ubiquitin ligase directs selective synapse elimination. Science 317(5840): 947–951.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rémy, J.-G., and Letamendia, C. 2013. Home Area Networks and IPTV. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Cataldo, A. 2011. Broadband Reflectometry for Enhanced Diagnostics and Monitoring Applications. Edited ByE. De Benedetto and G. Cannazza. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Quarteroni, A., and Saleri, F. 2006. Numerical differentiation and integration. In Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Octave: Second Edition. Edited by F. Saleri. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 101–122.

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 Canadian Journal of Forest Research.

Blog post

Andrews, R. 2017, June 1. Elon Musk Will Quit White House Advisor Role If America Leaves Paris Agreement. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/elon-musk-quit-white-house-advisor-role-america-leaves-paris/ [accessed 30 October 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. 2007. Telecommunications: Preliminary Information on Media Ownership. 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

Radcliffe, M.L. 2012. Random Graphs with Attribute Affinity. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

Marx, L. 2015, March 29. Going Into Marriage With Eyes Wide Open. New York Times: ST17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zatz 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Zatz 2005; Trent and Touchman 2007).

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

Two authors: (Trent and Touchman 2007)
Three or more authors: (Ding et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Abbreviation	Can. J. For. Res.
ISSN (print)	0045-5067
ISSN (online)	1208-6037
Scope	Forestry Ecology Global and Planetary Change