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

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

Friedlander M (2012) Physics: A century of cosmic rays. Nature 483:400–401

A journal article with 2 authors

Onishi KH, Baillargeon R (2005) Do 15-month-old infants understand false beliefs? Science 308:255–258

A journal article with 3 authors

Wiser MJ, Ribeck N, Lenski RE (2013) Long-term dynamics of adaptation in asexual populations. Science 342:1364–1367

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li M, Meng G, Huang Q, Zhang S (2014) Improved sensitivity of polychlorinated-biphenyl-orientated porous-ZnO surface photovoltage sensors from chemisorption-formed ZnO-CuPc composites. Sci Rep 4:4284

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dehn MJ (2010) Long-Term Memory Problems in Children and Adolescents. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Rhim JS, Kremer R (eds) (2012) Human Cell Transformation: Role of Stem Cells and the Microenvironment. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Gábor A, Banga JR (2014) Improved Parameter Estimation in Kinetic Models: Selection and Tuning of Regularization Methods. In: Mendes P, Dada JO, Smallbone K (eds) Computational Methods in Systems Biology: 12th International Conference, CMSB 2014, Manchester, UK, November 17-19, 2014, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 45–60

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 Forestry Research.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Island Lizards Digest More Efficiently Than Their Mainland Counterparts. In: IFLScience. 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 (2008) Responses to Questions for the Record; September 2008 Hearing on the Next Generation Air Transportation System: Status and 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

Hudson KR (2012) Student perception of teachers’ National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education and California Commission on Teacher Credentialing dispositions. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Chen DW, David Goodman J (2013) In Naming Top Police Official, De Blasio May Signal Change. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Friedlander 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Onishi and Baillargeon 2005; Friedlander 2012).

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

Two authors: (Onishi and Baillargeon 2005)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Forestry Research
Abbreviation	J. For. Res.
ISSN (print)	1007-662X
ISSN (online)	1993-0607
Scope	Forestry