How to format your references using the iForest citation style

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

Benson O (2011). Assembly of hybrid photonic architectures from nanophotonic constituents. Nature. 480: 193–199.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chiappe LM, Bertelli S (2006). Palaeontology: skull morphology of giant terror birds. Nature. 443: 929.

A journal article with 3 authors

Almeda R, Connelly TL, Buskey EJ (2014). Novel insight into the role of heterotrophic dinoflagellates in the fate of crude oil in the sea. Scientific Reports. 4: 7560.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zimmerman C, Klein KC, Kiser PK, Singh AR, Firestein BL, Riba SC, Lingappa JR (2002). Identification of a host protein essential for assembly of immature HIV-1 capsids. Nature. 415: 88–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cahill TH (2012). Low Impact Development and Sustainable Stormwater Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bonino S (Ed.) (2013). Aspetti psicologici nella sclerosi multipla: Dalla diagnosi alla gestione della malattia. Springer, Milano, pp. XII, 251 pagg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kalra MK (2008). Dual-Source CT: Practical Aspects of Techniques and Applications. In: MDCT: From Protocols to Practice (MK Kalra, S Saini, GD Rubin eds). Springer, Milano.

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 iForest.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014, March 5). 13-Year-Old Becomes Youngest Scientist to Achieve Nuclear Fusion. Retrieved 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/physics/13-year-old-becomes-youngest-scientist-achieve-nuclear-fusion/

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 (2011). Transportation Security Infrastructure Modernization May Enhance DHS Screening Capabilities, but It Is Too Early to Assess Results No. GAO-12-192R. 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

Baker BR (2012). Schizophrenia-spectrum behavior and peer responses to individuals with social anhedonia Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Pareles J, Ratliff B, Caramanica J, Chinen N, Holden S, Coscarelli J, Ganz C (2016, September 18). New Chapters From Our Pop Dreams. New York Times, p. AR109.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benson 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Chiappe & Bertelli 2006, Benson 2011).

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

Two authors: (Chiappe & Bertelli 2006)
Three or more authors: (Zimmerman et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	iForest
Abbreviation	IForest
ISSN (print)	1971-7458
Scope	Forestry Ecology Nature and Landscape Conservation