How to format your references using the Forestry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Forestry. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Cox, A.L. 2015 MEDICINE. Global control of hepatitis C virus. Science. 349, 790–791.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weis, V.M. and Allemand, D. 2009 Physiology. What determines coral health? Science. 324, 1153–1155.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao, W., Luo, J. and Jiao, S. 2014 Comprehensive characterization of cancer subtype associated long non-coding RNAs and their clinical implications. Sci. Rep. 4, 6591.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sun, J., Pang, Z.P., Qin, D., Fahim, A.T., Adachi, R. and Südhof, T.C. 2007 A dual-Ca2+-sensor model for neurotransmitter release in a central synapse. Nature. 450, 676–682.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stacey, W.M. 2010 Fusion. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Trobok, M., Miščević, N. and Žarnić, B. (eds.). 2012 Between Logic and Reality: Modeling Inference, Action and Understanding. 'Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science. Springer Netherlands, X, 282 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Mączkowski, G., Sitnik, R. and Krzesłowski, J. 2012 Data Acquisition Enhancement in Shape and Multispectral Color Measurements of 3D Objects. In Image and Signal Processing: 5th International Conference, ICISP 2012, Agadir, Morocco, June 28-30, 2012. Proceedings. A. Elmoataz, D. Mammass, O. Lezoray, F. Nouboud and D. Aboutajdine (eds.). Springer, pp. 27–35.

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 Forestry.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. 2015 Should A Self-Driving Car Kill Its Passengers In A “Greater Good” Scenario? [WWW Document]. IFLScience URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/should-self-driving-car-be-programmed-kill-its-passengers-greater-good-scenario/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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. 2000 Benefit and Loan Programs: Improved Data Sharing Could Enhance Program Integrity (No. HEHS-00-119). 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

France, K.A. 2015 Triadic Supervision: An Exploration of Supervisors’ Perceptions, Experiences and Practices (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington 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

Paulson, M. 2017 To Say Hello To Dolly, Say Bye to $1,009. New York Times. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cox, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Cox, 2015; Weis and Allemand, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Weis and Allemand, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Sun et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Forestry
ISSN (print)	0015-752X
ISSN (online)	1464-3626
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