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

Inglis, T., 2014. Developed nations must not fear sending Ebola help. Nature 514, 537.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crowley, T.J., Hyde, W.T., 2008. Transient nature of late Pleistocene climate variability. Nature 456, 226–230.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jenkins, N., Saam, J.R., Mango, S.E., 2006. CYK-4/GAP provides a localized cue to initiate anteroposterior polarity upon fertilization. Science 313, 1298–1301.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hasegawa, Y., Tang, D., Takahashi, N., Hayashizaki, Y., Forrest, A.R.R., FANTOM Consortium, Suzuki, H., 2014. CCL2 enhances pluripotency of human induced pluripotent stem cells by activating hypoxia related genes. Sci. Rep. 4, 5228.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tapiero, C.S., 2010. Risk Finance and Asset Pricing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ambroszkiewicz, S., Brzeziński, J., Cellary, W., Grzech, A., Zieliński, K. (Eds.), 2014. Advanced SOA Tools and Applications, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Park, K.-H., Song, H.-Y., 2008. A Probabilistic Approach on Estimating the Number of Modular Sonar Sequences, in: Golomb, S.W., Parker, M.G., Pott, A., Winterhof, A. (Eds.), Sequences and Their Applications - SETA 2008: 5th International Conference Lexington, KY, USA, September 14-18, 2008 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 42–50.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. FDA Approves Tech That Helps Blind People “See” With Their Tongue [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/fda-approves-tech-helps-blind-people-see-their-tongue/ (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, 1990. Issues to Be Considered During Deliberations to Reauthorize the Federal-Aid Highway Program (No. T-RCED-90-50). 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

Wilson, M.B., 2009. Constructions of childhood found in award -winning children’s literature (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2007. Justices Take Up Police Use of Lethal Force. New York Times A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Inglis, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Crowley and Hyde, 2008; Inglis, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Crowley and Hyde, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Hasegawa et al., 2014)

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