How to format your references using the Journal of the Indian Academy of Wood Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Indian Academy of Wood Science. 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

Vousden KH (2005) Apoptosis. p53 and PUMA: a deadly duo. Science 309:1685–1686

A journal article with 2 authors

Scanziani M, Häusser M (2009) Electrophysiology in the age of light. Nature 461:930–939

A journal article with 3 authors

Osi A, Butler RJ, Weishampel DB (2010) A Late Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaur from Europe with Asian affinities. Nature 465:466–468

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ray PS, Jia J, Yao P, et al (2009) A stress-responsive RNA switch regulates VEGFA expression. Nature 457:915–919

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kovalev VA (2015) Solutions in Lidar Profiling of the Atmosphere. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Senn H-J, Kapp U, Otto F (eds) (2009) Cancer Prevention II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Silverman WK, Pina AA (2008) Psychosocial Treatments for Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Youth. In: Steele RG, Elkin TD, Roberts MC (eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based Therapies for Children and Adolescents: Bridging Science and Practice. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 65–82

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 the Indian Academy of Wood Science.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Where Will The Next Generation Of Nobel Prize Winners Come From? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/where-will-next-generation-nobel-prize-winners-come/. 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 (1998) Education and Employment Issue Area Plan: Fiscal Years 1998-2000. 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

Sutton DS (2015) Structural and geophysical interpretation of Roatán Island, Honduras, Western Caribbean. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

St. John Kelly E (1998) Publication Gives 2 Neighborhoods Unwanted Local Color. New York Times 149

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vousden 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Vousden 2005; Scanziani and Häusser 2009).

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

Two authors: (Scanziani and Häusser 2009)
Three or more authors: (Ray et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Indian Academy of Wood Science
ISSN (print)	0972-172X
ISSN (online)	0976-8432
Scope	Forestry Plant Science Biomaterials