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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Macilwain C (2014) Beware of backroom deals in the name of “science.” Nature 508:289
A journal article with 2 authors
Heisler IA, Meech SR (2010) Low-frequency modes of aqueous alkali halide solutions: glimpsing the hydrogen bonding vibration. Science 327:857–860
A journal article with 3 authors
Xiong Q, Mukherjee S, Furey TS (2014) GSAASeqSP: a toolset for gene set association analysis of RNA-Seq data. Sci Rep 4:6347
A journal article with 5 or more authors
Fawcett PJ, Werne JP, Anderson RS, et al (2011) Extended megadroughts in the southwestern United States during Pleistocene interglacials. Nature 470:518–521

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Vegh A (2010) Web Development with the Mac®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA
An edited book
Różewski P, Novikov D, Bakhtadze N, Zaikin O (eds) (2016) New Frontiers in Information and Production Systems Modelling and Analysis: Incentive Mechanisms, Competence Management, Knowledge-based Production. Springer International Publishing, Cham
A chapter in an edited book
Fallon R (2015) Celebgate: Two Methodological Approaches to the 2014 Celebrity Photo Hacks. In: Tiropanis T, Vakali A, Sartori L, Burnap P (eds) Internet Science: Second International Conference, INSCI 2015, Brussels, Belgium, May 27-29, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 49–60

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
Luntz S (2015) How Protein Molecules Drive Circadian Rhythms. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/how-protein-molecules-drive-circadian-rhythms/. 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 (2016) Vehicle Cybersecurity: DOT and Industry Have Efforts Under Way, but DOT Needs to Define Its Role in Responding to a Real-world Attack. 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
Tan SW (2013) A pedagogical approach to selected études from Étude en douze exercices, S.136 and Études d ’exécution transcendante, S.139 by Franz Liszt. 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
St. John Kelly E (1997) Children Find Locks, Not Slides. New York Times 148

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Heisler and Meech 2010; Macilwain 2014).

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

  • Two authors: (Heisler and Meech 2010)
  • Three or more authors: (Fawcett et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal titleEuropean Journal of Wood and Wood Products
ISSN (print)0018-3768
ISSN (online)1436-736X
ScopeForestry
General Materials Science

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