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

Walsh, C.T., 2004. Polyketide and nonribosomal peptide antibiotics: modularity and versatility. Science 303, 1805–1810.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mori, M., Umemura, M., 2006. The evolution of galaxies from primeval irregulars to present-day ellipticals. Nature 440, 644–647.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bar-Yam, Y., Harmon, D., de Bivort, B., 2009. Systems biology. Attractors and democratic dynamics. Science 323, 1016–1017.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Irifune, T., Shinmei, T., McCammon, C.A., Miyajima, N., Rubie, D.C., Frost, D.J., 2010. Iron partitioning and density changes of pyrolite in Earth’s lower mantle. Science 327, 193–195.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kerzner, H., 2015. Project Management 2.0. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kato, N., Kawata, M., Pitman, R.K. (Eds.), 2006. PTSD: Brain Mechanisms and Clinical Implications. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Poirier, D.R., Geiger, G.H., 2016. Energy Balance Applications in Fluid Flow, in: Geiger, G.H. (Ed.), Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 113–143.

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

Davis, J., 2016. Enormous Algal Bloom In Chile Is Poisoning Wildlife [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/largest-red-tide-outbreak-currently-hitting-southern-chile/ (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, 2000. Aviation Security: Vulnerabilities Still Exist in the Aviation Security System (No. T-RCED/AIMD-00-142). 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

Tanner-Anderson, S.L., 2014. “The Road Less Traveled”: The Female’s Journey to the State Superintendency (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Murphy, M.J.O., 2015. Friday File. New York Times C26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walsh, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Mori and Umemura, 2006; Walsh, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Mori and Umemura, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Irifune et al., 2010)

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