How to format your references using the European Journal of Forest Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European 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	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

Wagner A (2002) Retrospective. Willibald Jentschke (1911-2002). Science 296:672

A journal article with 2 authors

Deban SM, Olson WM (2002) Suction feeding by a tiny predatory tadpole. Nature 420:41–42

A journal article with 3 authors

Cho G, Wu Y, Ackerman JL (2003) Detection of hydroxyl ions in bone mineral by solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Science 300:1123–1127

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bivona TG, Pérez De Castro I, Ahearn IM, et al (2003) Phospholipase Cgamma activates Ras on the Golgi apparatus by means of RasGRP1. Nature 424:694–698

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Islam MR, Chhetri AB, Khan MM (2010) The Greening of Petroleum Operations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Li JJ, Li SA, Llombart-Bosch A (eds) (2005) Hormonal Carcinogenesis IV. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Osipov G, Smirnov I, Tikhomirov I, et al (2014) Information Retrieval for R&D support. In: Paltoglou G, Loizides F, Hansen P (eds) Professional Search in the Modern World: COST Action IC1002 on Multilingual and Multifaceted Interactive Information Access. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 45–69

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 European Journal of Forest Research.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) The World’s Largest Pyramid Is Hidden Under A Hill. In: IFLScience. 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

Government Accountability Office (1991) Armored Systems Modernization: Program Inconsistent With Current Threat and Budgetary Constraints. 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

Detweiler KR (2012) Exploring Discursive Interaction, Habitus, and Dynamic Co-emergence Among an Agency Leader and Congressional Oversight Committee: A Case Study of Languaging in Practice. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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 JL (1972) Preserving Our Relevance. New York Times SPORTS14

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wagner 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Wagner 2002; Deban and Olson 2002).

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

Two authors: (Deban and Olson 2002)
Three or more authors: (Bivona et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Forest Research
Abbreviation	Eur. J. For. Res.
ISSN (print)	1612-4669
ISSN (online)	1612-4677
Scope	Forestry Plant Science