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
Kopelman PG (2000) Obesity as a medical problem. Nature 404:635–643
A journal article with 2 authors
Hibberd JM, Quick WP (2002) Characteristics of C4 photosynthesis in stems and petioles of C3 flowering plants. Nature 415:451–454
A journal article with 3 authors
Mumby PJ, Hastings A, Edwards HJ (2007) Thresholds and the resilience of Caribbean coral reefs. Nature 450:98–101
A journal article with 5 or more authors
Singer PA, Berndtson K, Tracy CS, et al (2007) A tough transition. Nature 449:160–163

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Chandra S (2016) Energy, Entropy and Engines. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK
An edited book
Ahmad A (ed) (2013) Breast Cancer Metastasis and Drug Resistance: Progress and Prospects. Springer, New York, NY
A chapter in an edited book
Zhang L, Wu Q, Qin B, Domingo-Ferrer J (2012) Practical Privacy for Value-Added Applications in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. In: Xiang Y, Pathan M, Tao X, Wang H (eds) Internet and Distributed Computing Systems: 5th International Conference, IDCS 2012, Wuyishan, Fujian, China, November 21-23, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–56

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
Davis J (2016) Doctors May Need To Gender Match Corneal Transplants. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/doctors-may-need-to-gender-match-corneal-transplants/. 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 (1982) Survey To Identify Models Used by Executive Agencies in the Policymaking Process. 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
Kamph M (2017) Examining Commodity, Agency, and Value: Prehistoric French Replicas, Casts, and “Frauds” within the National Museum of Natural History’s Collection. 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
Arango T, Gordon MR (2017) ISIS Is Routed As Iraqi Forces Reclaim Mosul. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kopelman 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kopelman 2000; Hibberd and Quick 2002).

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

  • Two authors: (Hibberd and Quick 2002)
  • Three or more authors: (Singer et al. 2007)

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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