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

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

Garwin, R., 2007. How the mighty have fallen. Nature 449, 543.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bouwens, R.J., Illingworth, G.D., 2006. Rapid evolution of the most luminous galaxies during the first 900 million years. Nature 443, 189–192.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jockers, M.L., Sag, M., Schultz, J., 2012. Digital archives: Don’t let copyright block data mining. Nature 490, 29–30.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

McLean, D.L., Fan, J., Higashijima, S.-I., Hale, M.E., Fetcho, J.R., 2007. A topographic map of recruitment in spinal cord. Nature 446, 71–75.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tiwari, A., Gerhardt, R.A., Szutkowska, M., 2016. Advanced Ceramic Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gibbons, J., Nogueira, P. (Eds.), 2012. Mathematics of Program Construction: 11th International Conference, MPC 2012, Madrid, Spain, June 25-27, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Saravanakumar, G., Kim, W.J., 2014. Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric Nanocarriers as Promising Drug and Gene Delivery Systems, in: Prokop, A., Iwasaki, Y., Harada, A. (Eds.), Intracellular Delivery II: Fundamentals and Applications, Fundamental Biomedical Technologies. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 55–91.

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 Journal of Forest Economics.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. How Unregulated Hunting Almost Wiped Out Amazonian Species [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-unregulated-hunting-almost-wiped-out-amazonian-species/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1975. Federal Agencies Administering Programs Related to Marine Science Activities and Oceanic Affairs (No. GGD-75-61). 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

Hong, A.N., 2017. A Diastereomeric Strategy in the Construction of Homochiral Metal-Organic Architectures (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

Sasse, B., 2017. Put Your Kids to Work. New York Times SR7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Garwin, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bouwens and Illingworth, 2006; Garwin, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Bouwens and Illingworth, 2006)
Three or more authors: (McLean et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Forest Economics
Abbreviation	J. For. Res.
ISSN (print)	1104-6899
Scope	Forestry Ecology Geography, Planning and Development