How to format your references using the International Journal of Forest Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Forest Engineering. 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

Kaplan AE. 2004. The long and the short of it. Nature. 431(7009):633.

A journal article with 2 authors

Menon AK, Levine TP. 2015. Cell biology: Countercurrents in lipid flow. Nature. 525(7568):191–192.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tuljapurkar S, Li N, Boe C. 2000. A universal pattern of mortality decline in the G7 countries. Nature. 405(6788):789–792.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Harrison CJ, Corley SB, Moylan EC, Alexander DL, Scotland RW, Langdale JA. 2005. Independent recruitment of a conserved developmental mechanism during leaf evolution. Nature. 434(7032):509–514.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg SM. 2010. Running an Effective Investor Relations Department. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cole PH, Ranasinghe DC, editors. 2008. Networked RFID Systems and Lightweight Cryptography: Raising Barriers to Product Counterfeiting. First edition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Serpa NSC, Sá BB, Costa I, Vendrametto O. 2014. Agribusiness, Agrienergy and Leadership: The Coaching as a Tool to Guide Talents. In: Grabot B, Vallespir B, Gomes S, Bouras A, Kiritsis D, editors. Advances in Production Management Systems Innovative and Knowledge-Based Production Management in a Global-Local World: IFIP WG 57 International Conference, APMS 2014, Ajaccio, France, September 20-24, 2014, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 38–45.

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 International Journal of Forest Engineering.

Blog post

Davis J. 2016. “Secret Ginger Gene” May Increase Risk Of Developing Skin Cancer. IFLScience.

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. 1978. Administration for Children, Youth, and Families: Need To Better Use Its Research Results and Clarify Its Role. Washington, DC: 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

Al azze Q. 2014. Field-Oriented Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors Based on DSP Controller [Doctoral dissertation]. Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kaplan 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Kaplan 2004; Menon and Levine 2015).

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

Two authors: (Menon and Levine 2015)
Three or more authors: (Harrison et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Forest Engineering
Abbreviation	Int. J. Forest Eng.
ISSN (print)	1494-2119
ISSN (online)	1913-2220
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