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

Knoepfler P. 2011. My year as a stem-cell blogger. Nature. 475(7357):425.

A journal article with 2 authors

Quental TB, Marshall CR. 2013. How the Red Queen drives terrestrial mammals to extinction. Science. 341(6143):290–292.

A journal article with 3 authors

Johnson KS, Riser SC, Karl DM. 2010. Nitrate supply from deep to near-surface waters of the North Pacific subtropical gyre. Nature. 465(7301):1062–1065.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Kim SH, Lee JH, Hyun H, Ashitate Y, Park G, Robichaud K, Lunsford E, Lee SJ, Khang G, Choi HS. 2013. Near-infrared fluorescence imaging for noninvasive trafficking of scaffold degradation. Sci Rep. 3:1198.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Böhmer E. 2015. Dentistry in Rabbits and Rodents. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Specht EJ. 2015. Euclidean Geometry and its Subgeometries. 1st ed. 2015. Jones HT, Calkins KG, Rhoads DH, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ahmed R, Boutaba R. 2014. Availability. In: Boutaba R, editor. Collaborative Web Hosting: Challenges and Research Directions. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 45–55.

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

Fang J. 2016. Ounce For Ounce, Birds Have More Neurons In Their Brains Than Mammals. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ounce-for-ounce-birds-have-more-neurons-in-their-brains-than-mammals/

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. 2013. Biomedical Research: NIH Should Assess the Impact of Growth in Indirect Costs on Its Mission. 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

Hammamy R. 2010. “Promoting responsible action in medical emergencies”: Determining the impact of a new University of Maryland alcohol protocol [Doctoral dissertation]. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Billard M. 2010. Get a Little Closer To the Sun. New York Times.:E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knoepfler 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Knoepfler 2011; Quental and Marshall 2013).

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

Two authors: (Quental and Marshall 2013)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al. 2013)

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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