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

Zwerger W (2009) Physics. Itinerant ferromagnetism with ultracold atoms. Science 325:1507–1509

A journal article with 2 authors

Pasupathy A, Miller EK (2005) Different time courses of learning-related activity in the prefrontal cortex and striatum. Nature 433:873–876

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu C-I, Shi S, Zhang Y-P (2004) A case for conservation. Nature 428:213–214

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen WG, Chang Q, Lin Y, et al (2003) Derepression of BDNF transcription involves calcium-dependent phosphorylation of MeCP2. Science 302:885–889

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perlmutter DD, Rothstein RL (2010) The Challenge of Climate Change. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Ng W, Storey VC, Trujillo JC (eds) (2013) Conceptual Modeling: 32th International Conference, ER 2013, Hong-Kong, China, November 11-13, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Strenzke F (2010) A Smart Card Implementation of the McEliece PKC. In: Samarati P, Tunstall M, Posegga J, et al. (eds) Information Security Theory and Practices. Security and Privacy of Pervasive Systems and Smart Devices: 4th IFIP WG 11.2 International Workshop, WISTP 2010, Passau, Germany, April 12-14, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 47–59

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

Hale T (2016) Divorce Rates Are Highest After Family Vacations. 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 (1969) Internal Revenue Service Data Center, Detroit, Michigan. 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

Kraka EK (2012) Assessment of herbicides for control of non-native species: Italian ryegrass (Lolium perenne spp. multiflorum ), tropical spiderwort (Commelina benghalensis), and tropical soda apple (Solanum viarum). Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State 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

Shpigel B (2017) Rangers Regain Their Footing at the Garden and March Back Into the Series. New York Times B10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zwerger 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Pasupathy and Miller 2005; Zwerger 2009).

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

Two authors: (Pasupathy and Miller 2005)
Three or more authors: (Chen 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

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