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

DeWeerdt, S., 2013. Genetics: written in blood. Nature 498, S4-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Long, T., Wyse, S., 2012. IBI series winner. A season for inquiry: investigating phenology in local campus trees. Science 335, 932–933.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pool, J.A., Lobkovsky, E., Chirik, P.J., 2004. Hydrogenation and cleavage of dinitrogen to ammonia with a zirconium complex. Nature 427, 527–530.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nong, G., Chen, S., Xu, Y., Huang, L., Zou, Q., Li, S., Mo, H., Zhu, P., Cen, W., Wang, S., 2014. Artificial photosynthesis of oxalate and oxalate-based polymer by a photovoltaic reactor. Sci. Rep. 4, 3572.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Attokaran, M., 2011. Natural Food Flavors and Colorants. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Baldacchino, J., Vella, R. (Eds.), 2013. Mediterranean Art and Education: Navigating Local, Regional and Global Imaginaries Through the Lens of the Arts And Learning, Comparative and International Education, A Diversity of Voices. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

van den Hoven, M., 2011. Commentary: The Struggle Against AIDS and the Pharmaceuticals Industry – Are There Limits to the Moral Obligation to Do Good?, in: Dubbink, W., Liedekerke, L. van, Luijk, H. van (Eds.), European Business Ethics Cases in Context: The Morality of Corporate Decision Making, Issues in Business Ethics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 47–53.

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

Davis, J., 2015. 120 Million-Year-Old Sea Turtle Found [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/oldest-known-fossil-sea-turtle-described/ (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, 1972. Lack of Effective Coordinated or Centralized Management Control of Closed-Circuit Television Used in DOD for Training and Education (No. B-177350). 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

Seidel, J.G., 2015. Adolescent female stress management curriculum (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kelly, M., 1992. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Candidate’s Record; The Matter of Trust: Clinton’s Big Burden. New York Times 124.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (DeWeerdt, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (DeWeerdt, 2013; Long and Wyse, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Long and Wyse, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Nong 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