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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Forest Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Bourzac K (2014) Microbiome: the bacterial tightrope. Nature 516:S14-6

A journal article with 2 authors

Martincorena I, Campbell PJ (2015) Somatic mutation in cancer and normal cells. Science 349:1483–1489

A journal article with 3 authors

Møller PR, Nielsen JG, Fossen I (2003) Fish migration: Patagonian toothfish found off Greenland. Nature 421:599

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Striemer CC, Gaborski TR, McGrath JL, Fauchet PM (2007) Charge- and size-based separation of macromolecules using ultrathin silicon membranes. Nature 445:749–753

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pachamanova DA, Fabozzi FJ (2010) Simulation and Optimization in Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ryabov VV (2014) Trap Magmatism and Ore Formation in the Siberian Noril’sk Region: Volume 1. Trap Petrology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Kalmar B, Greensmith L (2008) Heat Shock Proteins as Therapeutic Targets in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. In: Asea AAA, Brown IR (eds) Heat Shock Proteins and the Brain: Implications for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Neuroprotection. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 69–107

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 Research.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Gene Therapy Boosts Deaf Guinea Pigs’ Cochlear Implants. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gene-therapy-boosts-deaf-guinea-pigs’-cochlear-implants/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1986) Educating Deaf Students at Federally Assisted Postsecondary Schools. 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

Luna M (2017) A Case Study of the Influence of Multipurpose Spaces on Campus Life at an Institution of Art and Design. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Leland J (2016) Carlsen, ‘Mozart of Chess,’ Overwhelms Challenger to Win Championship. New York Times A29

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bourzac 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bourzac 2014; Martincorena and Campbell 2015).

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

Two authors: (Martincorena and Campbell 2015)
Three or more authors: (Striemer et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Forest Research
Abbreviation	J. Forest Res.
ISSN (print)	1341-6979
ISSN (online)	1610-7403
Scope	Forestry