How to format your references using the Current Forestry Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Forestry Reports. 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 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

1. Choi JR. A novel method for analyzing complicated quantum behaviors of light waves in oscillating turbulent plasma. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6880.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Leathers ML, Olson CR. Response to comment on “In monkeys making value-based decisions, LIP neurons encode cue salience and not action value.” Science. 2013;340:430.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wang K, Hu Y, He J. Deformation cycles of subduction earthquakes in a viscoelastic Earth. Nature. 2012;484:327–32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Rocha DFO, Wouters FC, Machado G, Marsaioli AJ. First biosynthetic pathway of 1-hepten-3-one in Iporangaia pustulosa (Opiliones). Sci Rep. 2013;3:3156.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ballast DK. Interior Detailing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Rehm G, Uszkoreit H, editors. The Greek Language in the Digital Age. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Stafford S. ‘Pester Them with Letters’: Using Darwin’s Correspondence in the Classroom. In: Boulter CJ, Reiss MJ, Sanders DL, editors. Darwin-Inspired Learning. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2015. p. 35–44.

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 Current Forestry Reports.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Grime On Your Phone Can Reveal Huge Insights Into Your Life [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/grime-on-your-phone-can-reveal-huge-insights-into-your-life/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Mass Transit: Issues Related to Providing Dedicated Funding for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 May. Report No.: GAO-06-516.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Burns KN. Impact of Cognitive Tasks on Gait Parameters in Collegiate Athletes [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

1. Sisario B. The Killers’ 5th Album Tops Billboard Chart. New York Times. 2017 Oct 3;C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Forestry Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. For. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2198-6436
Scope