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

Claeys M (2010) Comment on ‘Unexpected epoxide formation in the gas-phase photooxidation of isoprene’. Science (New York, NY) 327, 644; author reply 644.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pera MF, Tam PPL (2010) Extrinsic regulation of pluripotent stem cells. Nature 465, 713–720.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arlettaz R, Jones G, Racey PA (2001) Effect of acoustic clutter on prey detection by bats. Nature 414, 742–745.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Streets DG, Jiang K, Hu X, Sinton JE, Zhang XQ, Xu D, Jacobson MZ, Hansen JE (2001) Climate change. Recent reductions in China’s greenhouse gas emissions. Science (New York, NY) 294, 1835–1837.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li F-C, Yu B, Wei J-J, Kawaguchi Y (2011) ‘Turbulent Drag Reduction by Surfactant Additives.’ (John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.: Singapore)

An edited book

Ehiri J (Ed) (2009) ‘Maternal and Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies.’ (Springer US: Boston, MA)

A chapter in an edited book

Hood-Daniel P, Kelly JF (2011) Cutting the Parts II. ‘Printing in Plastic: Build Your Own 3D Printer’. (Ed JF Kelly) pp. 49–67. (Apress: Berkeley, CA)

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 (2014) Discovery Of “Good Fat” Molecules Could Lead To New Diabetes Treatment. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/discovery-good-fat-molecules-could-lead-new-diabetes-treatment/.

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 (1979) Federal Research Grants: Maintaining Public Accountability Without Inhibiting Creative Research. U.S. Government Printing Office, 094378. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Muenyong-Zinner S (2017) Care First Wound Healing Center a Business Plan. 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

Broderick JT Jr, George RM (2010) A Nation of Do-It-Yourself Lawyers. New York Times A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Claeys 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Claeys 2010; Pera and Tam 2010).

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

Two authors: (Pera and Tam 2010)
Three or more authors: (Streets et al. 2001)

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