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

Schiermeier Q. 2000. German Greens go cold on nuclear fusion. Nature. 405(6783):107.

A journal article with 2 authors

Palmer SM, Driscoll CT. 2002. Acidic deposition: decline in mobilization of toxic aluminium. Nature. 417(6886):242–243.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dawkins MS, Donnelly CA, Jones TA. 2004. Chicken welfare is influenced more by housing conditions than by stocking density. Nature. 427(6972):342–344.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Ge B, Gram H, Di Padova F, Huang B, New L, Ulevitch RJ, Luo Y, Han J. 2002. MAPKK-independent activation of p38alpha mediated by TAB1-dependent autophosphorylation of p38alpha. Science. 295(5558):1291–1294.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marroni L, Perdomo I. 2013. Pricing and Hedging Financial Derivatives. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Montani S, Jain LC, editors. 2010. Successful Case-based Reasoning Applications - I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tribollet A. 2008. The boring microflora in modern coral reef ecosystems: a review of its roles. In: Wisshak M, Tapanila L, editors. Current Developments in Bioerosion. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 67–94.

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

Hale T. 2017. Turns Out That New Massive Ancient Egyptian Statue Isn’t Ramses II. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/turns-out-that-new-massive-ancient-egyptian-statue-isnt-ramses-ii/

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. 1992. Computer Reservation Systems. 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

Eyers BM. 2011. An Analysis of Remote Biometric Authentication with Windows [Doctoral dissertation]. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Branch J. 2016. Olympian’s Mother Leaves a Suitcase at Check-In, and It Is Destroyed. New York Times.:A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier 2000; Palmer and Driscoll 2002).

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

Two authors: (Palmer and Driscoll 2002)
Three or more authors: (Ge et al. 2002)

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