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

Stringer C (2014) Human evolution: Small remains still pose big problems. Nature 514:427–429

A journal article with 2 authors

Bintanja R, Selten FM (2014) Future increases in Arctic precipitation linked to local evaporation and sea-ice retreat. Nature 509:479–482

A journal article with 3 authors

Pascalis O, de Haan M, Nelson CA (2002) Is face processing species-specific during the first year of life? Science 296:1321–1323

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Deléglise S, Dotsenko I, Sayrin C, et al (2008) Reconstruction of non-classical cavity field states with snapshots of their decoherence. Nature 455:510–514

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morag N (2011) Comparative Homeland Security. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Rajendram R, Preedy VR, Patel VB (eds) (2015) Glutamine in Clinical Nutrition. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Houlgate S (2005) Religion, Morality and Forgiveness in Hegel’s Philosophy. In: Desmond W, Onnasch E-O, Cruysberghs P (eds) Philosophy and Religion in German Idealism. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 81–110

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

Taub B (2016) Snails Can Make Decisions Using Just Two Brain Cells. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/snails-make-decisions-two-brain-cells/. 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 (1985) Digests of Unpublished Decisions of the Comptroller General, Vol. II, No. 1. 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

Dalbey SB (2017) Celebrity Endorsements and Voting Intentions: The Role of Liking and Preference for Consistency. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Poniewozik J (2017) Inauguration Watch: Mr. Reality TV Goes to Washington. New York Times A22

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stringer 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bintanja and Selten 2014; Stringer 2014).

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

Two authors: (Bintanja and Selten 2014)
Three or more authors: (Deléglise et al. 2008)

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