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. Schlermiler Q. German research agency “doesn’t stifle creativity”, say 1,600 scientists. Nature. 2000;404:915.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Harper NS, McAlpine D. Optimal neural population coding of an auditory spatial cue. Nature. 2004;430:682–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Vais H, Foskett JK, Mak D-OD. InsP3R channel gating altered by clustering? Nature. 2011;478:E1-2; discussion E2-3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Monteverde M, Núñez-Regueiro M, Rogado N, Regan KA, Hayward MA, He T, et al. Pressure dependence of the superconducting transition temperature of magnesium diboride. Science. 2001;292:75–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Paris JL, Paris JL. CliffsNotes® Praxis II®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

1. Graeb HE, editor. Analog Layout Synthesis: A Survey of Topological Approaches. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Edwards P, Pignotti E, Eckhardt A, Ponnamperuma K, Mellish C, Bouttaz T. ourSpaces – Design and Deployment of a Semantic Virtual Research Environment. In: Cudré-Mauroux P, Heflin J, Sirin E, Tudorache T, Euzenat J, Hauswirth M, et al., editors. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2012: 11th International Semantic Web Conference, Boston, MA, USA, November 11-15, 2012, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 50–65.

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. Andrew E. Normal Skin Contains High Number Of Cancer-Linked Mutations [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/normal-skin-contains-high-number-cancer-linked-mutations/

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. Indian Affairs: Better Management and Accountability Needed to Improve Indian Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 Sep. Report No.: GAO-13-774.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Poldervaart PG. A qualitative study of nursing didactic programs: Novice nurses’ perception of competence, confidence, and retention [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2010.

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. Davey M. Limits on Unions Pass in Michigan, Once a Mainstay. New York Times. 2012 Dec 11;A1.

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