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

Joyce, G. F. 2007. Obituary: Leslie Orgel (1927-2007). Nature. 450(7170):627.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tyc, T., and X. Zhang. 2011. Forum Optics: Perfect lenses in focus. Nature. 480(7375):42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pearson, P. N., G. L. Foster, and B. S. Wade. 2009. Atmospheric carbon dioxide through the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition. Nature. 461(7267):1110–1113.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lopez-Vaamonde, C., J. W. Koning, R. M. Brown, W. C. Jordan, and A. F. G. Bourke. 2004. Social parasitism by male-producing reproductive workers in a eusocial insect. Nature. 430(6999):557–560.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Malpass, D. B., and E. I. Band. 2012. Introduction to Industrial Polypropylene. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Agrawal, S., ed. 2016. Obesity, Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery: A Practical Guide. 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham. XXVIII, 736 p. 415 illus., 327 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Dimond, R., R. P. Patel, and S. T. R. Zaidi. 2016. Fluoroquinolones. P. 45–52 in Drug Dosing in Obesity: Volume I: Antimicrobials, Zaidi, S.T.R., and J.A. Roberts (eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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

Fang, J. 2015. First Baby Conceived With New Fertility Treatment was Born Last Month. IFLScience. Available online at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/first-baby-conceived-new-fertility-treatment-was-born-last-month/; 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. 1988. Financial Markets: Preliminary Observations on the October 1987 Crash. 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

Chen, G. 2005. Essays On Using Weather Derivatives In Dairy Production. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Vecsey, G. 2010. More Teams Would Ruin a Great Thing. New York Times. :B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Joyce 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Joyce 2007; Tyc and Zhang 2011).

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

Two authors: (Tyc and Zhang 2011)
Three or more authors: (Lopez-Vaamonde et al. 2004)

About the journal

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

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