How to format your references using the Forests citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Forests. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Fuyuno, I. Ancient Foil Maker Wraps up Mobile-Phone Market. Nature 2005, 436, 775.

A journal article with 2 authors

MacLean, R.C.; Gudelj, I. Resource Competition and Social Conflict in Experimental Populations of Yeast. Nature 2006, 441, 498–501.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kayser, M.S.; Yue, Z.; Sehgal, A. A Critical Period of Sleep for Development of Courtship Circuitry and Behavior in Drosophila. Science 2014, 344, 269–274.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Comeau, S.; Edmunds, P.J.; Lantz, C.A.; Carpenter, R.C. Water Flow Modulates the Response of Coral Reef Communities to Ocean Acidification. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6681.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allerton, D. Principles of Flight Simulation; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2009; ISBN 9780470685662.

An edited book

Advances in Swarm Intelligence: Second International Conference, ICSI 2011, Chongqing, China, June 12-15, 2011, Proceedings, Part I; Tan, Y., Shi, Y., Chai, Y., Wang, G., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; Vol. 6728; ISBN 9783642215148.

A chapter in an edited book

Wattanapruttipaisan, T. The Topology of ASEAN FTAs, with Special Reference to IP-Related Provisions. In Intellectual Property and Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region; Antons, C., Hilty, R.M., Eds.; MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015; pp. 109–152 ISBN 9783642308871.

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 Forests.

Blog post

Andrew, D. Mike Pence, The US Vice President-Elect, Has Said He Doesn’t Believe That Smoking Kills Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/mike-pence-the-us-vice-presidentelect-has-said-he-doesnt-believe-that-smoking-kills/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Intellectual Property: Observations on Efforts to Quantify the Economic Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2010;

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Huang, Y.-F. The Effects of Two Methods on Training EFL University Students in Taiwan to Identify Three Non-Native Phonemic Contrasts. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, 2013.

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

Baker, L. A Canadian Condo Boom. New York Times 2007, 1111.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Forests
Abbreviation	Forests
ISSN (online)	1999-4907
Scope	Forestry