How to format your references using the Forest Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Forest Science and Technology. 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

Marx V. 2012. High-throughput anatomy: Charting the brain’s networks. Nature. 490(7419):293–298.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brochier C, Philippe H. 2002. Phylogeny: a non-hyperthermophilic ancestor for bacteria. Nature. 417(6886):244.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aharonian FA, Bogovalov SV, Khangulyan D. 2012. Abrupt acceleration of a “cold” ultrarelativistic wind from the Crab pulsar. Nature. 482(7386):507–509.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Chaimanee Y, Jolly D, Benammi M, Tafforeau P, Duzer D, Moussa I, Jaeger J-J. 2003. A Middle Miocene hominoid from Thailand and orangutan origins. Nature. 422(6927):61–65.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henriksen RN. 2010. Practical Relativity. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Wartofsky L, Van Nostrand D, editors. 2016. Thyroid Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management. 3rd ed. 2016. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nandy P, Aminul Islam M. 2010. Climate Resilient Coastal Zone Development in Bangladesh: Participatory Governance for Common Resources Management. In: Ramanathan AL, Bhattacharya P, Dittmar T, Prasad MBK, Neupane BR, editors. Management and Sustainable Development of Coastal Zone Environments. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; p. 58–72.

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 Science and Technology.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. Scientists Control Brain Cells Using Sound Waves. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-control-brain-cells-using-sound-waves/

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. 1989. Transportation Infrastructure: Reshaping the Federal Role Poses Significant Challenge for Policy Makers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Tuquero JM. 2010. A meta-ethnographic synthesis of support services for adult learners in distance learning programs [Doctoral dissertation]. Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Kelly C. 2009. Physical Therapy and the Camaraderie of Healing. New York Times.:D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marx 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Brochier and Philippe 2002; Marx 2012).

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

Two authors: (Brochier and Philippe 2002)
Three or more authors: (Chaimanee et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Forest Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Forest Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	2158-0103
ISSN (online)	2158-0715
Scope	Forestry Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law