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

Delaney P (2000) Palaeoceanography. Nutrients in the glacial balance. Nature 405:288–9, 291

A journal article with 2 authors

Sharp MD, Pogliano K (2002) Role of cell-specific SpoIIIE assembly in polarity of DNA transfer. Science 295:137–139

A journal article with 3 authors

Wise C, Pawlyn M, Braungart M (2013) Eco-engineering: Living in a materials world. Nature 494:172–175

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Weigel LM, Clewell DB, Gill SR, et al (2003) Genetic analysis of a high-level vancomycin-resistant isolate of Staphylococcus aureus. Science 302:1569–1571

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McCrary SA (2010) Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Yassine H (ed) (2015) Lipid Management: From Basics to Clinic. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Zaidi NA, Sidhu SB (2016) Open Adrenalectomy. In: Chen H (ed) Illustrative Handbook of General Surgery. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 51–60

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

Andrew E (2014) Stunning Photos Of Dried Whisky Under A Microscope. 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 (1988) Annual Index: Reports Issued in FY 1988. 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

Rahimi RM (2014) Investigation of Porosity Evolution and Orthotropic Axes on Anisotropic Materials. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Greenhouse L, Kirkpatrick DD (2007) Justices Loosen Ad Restrictions In Campaign Law. 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 (Delaney 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Delaney 2000; Sharp and Pogliano 2002).

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

Two authors: (Sharp and Pogliano 2002)
Three or more authors: (Weigel et al. 2003)

About the journal

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