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

Kondrashov A (2012) James Crow (1916-2012). Nature 481:444

A journal article with 2 authors

Mannhart J, Schlom DG (2010) Oxide interfaces--an opportunity for electronics. Science 327:1607–1611

A journal article with 3 authors

Qin Y, Wang X, Wang ZL (2008) Microfibre-nanowire hybrid structure for energy scavenging. Nature 451:809–813

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hou J, Cao C, Ma X, et al (2014) From rice bran to high energy density supercapacitors: a new route to control porous structure of 3D carbon. Sci Rep 4:7260

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris AE, Geiger G, Fine HA (2011) Handbook on Material and Energy Balance Calculations in Material Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Amid A (ed) (2015) Recombinant Enzymes - From Basic Science to Commercialization. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Zilberman D, Sproul TW, Sexton S, Roland-Holst D (2012) The Economics of Zoonotic Diseases: An Application to Avian Flu. In: Zilberman D, Otte J, Roland-Holst D, Pfeiffer D (eds) Health and Animal Agriculture in Developing Countries. Springer, New York, NY, pp 59–76

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

Andrew E (2015) Study Finds Large Health Benefits To Living Near Trees. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/there-are-health-benefits-living-near-trees-study-suggests/. 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 (2000) State Department: Progress and Challenges in Addressing Management Issues. 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

Kaminsky E (2006) Schumann’s Op. 14: Original, Revised and Edited (“Concerto without Orchestra” versus Piano Sonata No. 3). Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Kelly M (1993) THE INAUGURATION: Seizing the Day; New President Brings Opportunity to Cash In. New York Times A12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kondrashov 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Mannhart and Schlom 2010; Kondrashov 2012).

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

Two authors: (Mannhart and Schlom 2010)
Three or more authors: (Hou et al. 2014)

About the journal

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