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

Nestler EJ. 2001. Neurobiology. Total recall-the memory of addiction. Science. 292(5525):2266–2267.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barton GM, Medzhitov R. 2003. Toll-like receptor signaling pathways. Science. 300(5625):1524–1525.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu Z, Neff RA, Berg DK. 2006. Sequential interplay of nicotinic and GABAergic signaling guides neuronal development. Science. 314(5805):1610–1613.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Stephan KE, Marshall JC, Friston KJ, Rowe JB, Ritzl A, Zilles K, Fink GR. 2003. Lateralized cognitive processes and lateralized task control in the human brain. Science. 301(5631):384–386.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cannon CM. 2011. An Executive’s Guide to Fundraising Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gong X. 2014. Social Group Utility Maximization. Chen X, Yang L, Zhang J, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Schlein B. 2015. Spectral Properties of Wigner Matrices. In: Gayrard V, Kistler N, editors. Correlated Random Systems: Five Different Methods: CIRM Jean-Morlet Chair, Spring 2013. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 179–205.

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. What’s The Mass Of A Supermassive Black Hole? IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-measure-mass-supermassive-black-hole/

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. 2014. The Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Competitive Procurement. 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

Robinson LM. 2001. Using Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Spectroscopy to Examine Exciton Dynamics in II-VI Semiconductor Nanostructures [Doctoral dissertation]. Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.

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

Dynarski S. 2015. Why Small Student Debt Can Mean Big Problems. New York Times.:A3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nestler 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Nestler 2001; Barton and Medzhitov 2003).

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

Two authors: (Barton and Medzhitov 2003)
Three or more authors: (Stephan 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