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. Casassus B. MAD COW DISEASE: New Recruits for French Prion Research. Science. 2000;290:1671a.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dobbelaere J, Barral Y. Spatial coordination of cytokinetic events by compartmentalization of the cell cortex. Science. 2004;305:393–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Werner SC, Ody A, Poulet F. The source crater of martian shergottite meteorites. Science. 2014;343:1343–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Rasoloniaina A, Huet V, Nguyên TKN, Le Cren E, Mortier M, Michely L, et al. Controling the coupling properties of active ultrahigh-Q WGM microcavities from undercoupling to selective amplification. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4023.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cheng L, Lopez-Beltran A, Bostwick DG. Bladder Pathology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Meersman R, Dillon T, Herrero P, editors. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2011 Workshops: Confederated International Workshops and Posters: EI2N+NSF ICE, ICSP+INBAST, ISDE, ORM, OTMA, SWWS+MONET+SeDeS, and VADER 2011, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, October 17-21, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ranasinghe DC, Harrison M, Cole PH. EPC Network Architecture. In: Cole PH, Ranasinghe DC, editors. Networked RFID Systems and Lightweight Cryptography: Raising Barriers to Product Counterfeiting. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 59–78.

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 Current Forestry Reports.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Scientists Are Recreating Some Of The Most Extreme Events That Have Ever Occurred In The Universe [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/pushing-limits-experimental-astrophysics/

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. Mobile Devices: Federal Agencies’ Steps to Improve Mobile Access to Government Information and Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Dec. Report No.: GAO-15-69.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Noxon C. Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition: Insights from Jōmon Paleodemography [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University; 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. Greenhouse L. Justices’ First Brush With Global Warming. New York Times. 2006 Nov 30;A23.

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