How to format your references using the Forest Policy and Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Forest Policy and Economics. 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	Download the output style file
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

Brumfiel, G., 2002. China ponders joining fusion project. Nature 419, 545.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cuzzi, J.N., Alexander, C.M.O., 2006. Chondrule formation in particle-rich nebular regions at least hundreds of kilometres across. Nature 441, 483–485.

A journal article with 3 authors

Robertson, J.L., Kolmakova-Partensky, L., Miller, C., 2010. Design, function and structure of a monomeric ClC transporter. Nature 468, 844–847.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yoo, C.-H., Yeom, J.-H., Heo, J.-J., Song, E.-K., Lee, S.-I., Han, M.-K., 2014. Interferon β protects against lethal endotoxic and septic shock through SIRT1 upregulation. Sci. Rep. 4, 4220.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sheriff, R.E., Hu, Y.F., 2001. Mobile Satellite Communication Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Youtsos, A.G. (Ed.), 2006. Residual Stress and Its Effects on Fatigue and Fracture: Proceedings of a Special Symposium held within the 16th European Conference of Fracture – ECF16, Alexandroupolis, Greece, 3-7 July 2006. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Jentsch, C., Schlosser, F., Beimborn, D., 2015. Applying a Configurational Approach for Explaining the Role of Relationship Quality for Successful Outsourcing Arrangements, in: Oshri, I., Kotlarsky, J., Willcocks, L.P. (Eds.), Achieving Success and Innovation in Global Sourcing: Perspectives and Practices: 9th Global Sourcing Workshop 2015, La Thuile, Italy, February 18-21, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 62–82.

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 Forest Policy and Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. An extra second on the clock: why moving from astronomic to atomic time is a tricky business [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/extra-second-clock-why-moving-astronomic-atomic-time-tricky-business/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2000. Port Infrastructure: Financing of Navigation Projects at Small and Medium-Sized Ports (No. RCED-00-58). 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

Green, R.B., 2013. Bluetooth telemetry system for a wearable electrocardiogram (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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., 2012. A Light in Captivity, and a Subject for Writing. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brumfiel, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Brumfiel, 2002; Cuzzi and Alexander, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Cuzzi and Alexander, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Yoo et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Forest Policy and Economics
Abbreviation	For. Policy Econ.
ISSN (print)	1389-9341
Scope	Forestry Economics and Econometrics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Sociology and Political Science