How to format your references using the International Journal of Wildland Fire citation style

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

Curry S (2009) Journal club. A crystallographer takes a jaunt into immunology. Nature 457, 133.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rockström J, Falkenmark M (2015) Agriculture: increase water harvesting in Africa. Nature 519, 283–285.

A journal article with 3 authors

Haig J, Nott J, Reichart G-J (2014) Australian tropical cyclone activity lower than at any time over the past 550-1,500 years. Nature 505, 667–671.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xiang Y, Meng S, Wang J, Li S, Liu J, Li H, Li T, Song W, Zhou W (2014) Two novel DNA motifs are essential for BACE1 gene transcription. Scientific Reports 4, 6864.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mauthe A, Thomas P (2005) ‘Professional Content Management Systems.’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK)

An edited book

Zhou D, Greenbaum E (Eds) (2010) ‘Implantable Neural Prostheses 2: Techniques and Engineering Approaches.’ (Springer: New York, NY)

A chapter in an edited book

Theodorou MK, Brookman J, Trinci APJ (2005) Anaerobic fungi. ‘Methods in Gut Microbial Ecology for Ruminants’. (Eds HPS Makkar, CS McSweeney) pp. 55–66. (Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht)

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 Wildland Fire.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Physicists Prove ‘Quantum Spookiness’ And Start Chasing Schrödinger’s Cat. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/physicists-prove-quantum-spookiness-and-start-chasing-schr-dinger-s-cat/.

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 (2007) Intercollegiate Athletics: Recent Trends in Teams and Participants in National Collegiate Athletic Association Sports. U.S. Government Printing Office, GAO-07-535. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yi M (2015) Interrater reliability between novice and expert functional movement screen raters. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Hartocollis A (2013) Two Wills, One Private Heiress. New York Times MB1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Curry 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Curry 2009; Rockström and Falkenmark 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rockström and Falkenmark 2015)
Three or more authors: (Xiang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Wildland Fire
Abbreviation	Int. J. Wildland Fire
ISSN (print)	1049-8001
ISSN (online)	1448-5516
Scope	Forestry Ecology