How to format your references using the European Journal of Wood and Wood Products citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Wood and Wood Products. 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

Mervis J (2000) RESEARCH POLICY: Report Tracks Federal Funding in Each State. Science 288:2115b

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen X, Yan G-Y (2014) Semi-supervised learning for potential human microRNA-disease associations inference. Sci Rep 4:5501

A journal article with 3 authors

Croxall JP, Trathan PN, Murphy EJ (2002) Environmental change and Antarctic seabird populations. Science 297:1510–1514

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Park K, Lee J, Kim H-M, et al (2014) Discrete regenerative fuel cell reduces hysteresis for sustainable cycling of water. Sci Rep 4:4592

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruppel W (2014) GAAP for Governments 2014. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

An edited book

Bartolomé J, Luis F, Fernández JF (eds) (2014) Molecular Magnets: Physics and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Beal DN, Bandyopadhyay PR (2010) A harmonic model of hydrodynamic forces produced by a flapping fin. In: Taylor GK, Triantafyllou MS, Tropea C (eds) Animal Locomotion. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 37–44

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 Wood and Wood Products.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Apes Make Irrational Economic Decisions – That Includes You. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/apes-make-irrational-economic-decisions-includes-you/. 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 (1978) NORAD’s Information Processing Improvement Program: Will It Enhance Mission Capability? 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

Dammann NM (2009) Living in the edge: Community based governance in the aquatic terrestrial zone. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia 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

Vecsey G (2011) Observing the Journey of a Lacrosse Pioneer, McPhee Style. New York Times B15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mervis 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Mervis 2000; Chen and Yan 2014).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Yan 2014)
Three or more authors: (Park et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Wood and Wood Products
ISSN (print)	0018-3768
ISSN (online)	1436-736X
Scope	Forestry General Materials Science