How to format your references using the Forest Science citation style

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

Royal, C. D. M. 2011. Genome-sequencing anniversary. My genome, my identity, my health. Science. 331(6018):690–691.

A journal article with 2 authors

MacPherson, R. D., and D. J. Srolovitz. 2007. The von Neumann relation generalized to coarsening of three-dimensional microstructures. Nature. 446(7139):1053–1055.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falkovich, G., A. Fouxon, and M. G. Stepanov. 2002. Acceleration of rain initiation by cloud turbulence. Nature. 419(6903):151–154.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lee, J., S. J. Sim, M. Bott, Y. Um, M.-K. Oh, and H. M. Woo. 2014. Succinate production from CO₂-grown microalgal biomass as carbon source using engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum through consolidated bioprocessing. Sci. Rep. 4:5819.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walke, B., R. Seidenberg, and M. P. Althoff. 2005. UMTS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Hendrikse, G., M. Tuunanen, J. Windsperger, and G. Cliquet, eds. 2008. Strategy and Governance of Networks: Cooperatives, Franchising, and Strategic Alliances. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg. XI, 391 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Kitromilides, Y. 2016. Arab Countries in Transition in the Aftermath of the Great Recession: The Policy Options. P. 116–153 in Emerging Economies During and After the Great Recession, IMF Working Paper, 13/1. Arestis, P., and M. Sawyer (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

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.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. 2016. It’s Official: NASA’s Next Mission To Mars Will Launch In 2018. IFLScience. Available online at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-next-mission-to-mars-will-launch-in-2018/; last accessed October 30, 2018.

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. 1990. Issues Related to FAA’s Fiscal Year 1991 Budget Request. 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

Tom, D. M. 2012. Impact on achievement with ST math after school instruction. 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

Walsh, M. W., and J. Mouawad. 2012. U.S. Pension Agency Pressures American Airlines. New York Times. :B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Royal 2011).
This sentence cites two references (MacPherson and Srolovitz 2007; Royal 2011).

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

Two authors: (MacPherson and Srolovitz 2007)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Forest Science
Abbreviation	For. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0015-749X
Scope	Forestry Ecological Modelling Ecology