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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Gehrels T. Brains, courage and integrity. Nature. 2000;404:335.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Akbalik G, Schuman EM. Molecular biology. mRNA, live and unmasked. Science. 2014;343:375–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kislev ME, Hartmann A, Bar-Yosef O. Early domesticated fig in the Jordan Valley. Science. 2006;312:1372–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Chen J, Yagi H, Furutani Y, Nakamura T, Inaguma A, Guo H, et al. Self-assembly of the chaperonin GroEL nanocage induced at submicellar detergent. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5614.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Stanoyevitch A. Introduction to Numerical Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations Using MATLAB®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

1. Fritzsche K, McDaniel SH, Wirsching M, editors. Psychosomatic Medicine: An International Primer for the Primary Care Setting. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Moore GJ, Puglia FJ, Gulbinska MK. Lithium-ion Cells for High-End Applications. In: Gulbinska MK, editor. Lithium-ion Battery Materials and Engineering: Current Topics and Problems from the Manufacturing Perspective. London: Springer; 2014. p. 89–113.

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. Severe Weather Warning For Met Office As BBC Freezes It Out [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/severe-weather-warning-met-office-bbc-freezes-it-out/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Aircraft Noise At Memphis International Airport. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Dec. Report No.: RCED-97-37R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Thirumal VM. Production of Microbial Lipids from Lipomyces starkeyi [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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. Healy J, Schwartz J. U.S. Suspends Pipeline Work in Tribes’ Path. New York Times. 2016 Sep 9;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
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