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

Cohen, J. 2001. Knife-edge of design. Nature 411(6837): 529.

A journal article with 2 authors

Toyoshima, C., and Nomura, H. 2002. Structural changes in the calcium pump accompanying the dissociation of calcium. Nature 418(6898): 605–611.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lape, R., Colquhoun, D., and Sivilotti, L.G. 2008. On the nature of partial agonism in the nicotinic receptor superfamily. Nature 454(7205): 722–727.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Beer, C., Reichstein, M., Tomelleri, E., Ciais, P., Jung, M., Carvalhais, N., Rödenbeck, C., Arain, M.A., Baldocchi, D., Bonan, G.B., Bondeau, A., Cescatti, A., Lasslop, G., Lindroth, A., Lomas, M., Luyssaert, S., Margolis, H., Oleson, K.W., Roupsard, O., Veenendaal, E., Viovy, N., Williams, C., Woodward, F.I., and Papale, D. 2010. Terrestrial gross carbon dioxide uptake: global distribution and covariation with climate. Science 329(5993): 834–838.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bard, J., and Kovarik, V.J., Jr. 2007. Software Defined Radio. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Mastorakis, N., Mladenov, V., and Kontargyri, V.T. (Editors). 2009. Proceedings of the European Computing Conference: Volume 2. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Duyndam, J. 2009. Sincerely Me. Enjoyment and the Truth of Hedonism. In Radical Passivity: Rethinking Ethical Agency in Levinas. Edited by B. Hofmeyr. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht. pp. 67–78.

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

Luntz, S. 2015, January 29. Black Holes Sizes Follow A Formula. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/space/black-hole-sizes-follow-formula/ [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. 2002. School Meal Programs: Estimated Costs for Three Administrative Processes at Selected Locations. 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

Fino, M. 2010. Fruit and vegetable intake and exercise practices of college students of color. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Kelly, C. 2012, November 25. Girding for Anniversary Of Tragedy in Dallas. New York Times: A29B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cohen 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Cohen 2001; Toyoshima and Nomura 2002).

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

Two authors: (Toyoshima and Nomura 2002)
Three or more authors: (Beer et al. 2010)

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