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

Knight J (2001) Meet the Herod bug. Nature 412:12–14

A journal article with 2 authors

White AE, Harper JW (2012) Cancer. Emerging anatomy of the BAP1 tumor suppressor system. Science 337:1463–1464

A journal article with 3 authors

Vaupel JW, Carey JR, Christensen K (2003) Aging. It’s never too late. Science 301:1679–1681

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Athale CA, Dinarina A, Mora-Coral M, et al (2008) Regulation of microtubule dynamics by reaction cascades around chromosomes. Science 322:1243–1247

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Edelstein LN, Waehler CA (2011) What Do I Say? John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Miller J, Le Prell CG, Rybak L (eds) (2015) Free Radicals in ENT Pathology. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

dell’Isola F, Auffray N, Eremeyev VA, et al (2014) Least Action Principle for Second Gradient Continua and Capillary Fluids: A Lagrangian Approach Following Piola’s Point of View. In: dell’Isola F, Maier G, Perego U, et al. (eds) The complete works of Gabrio Piola: Volume I: Commented English Translation. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 606–694

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

Luntz S (2015) Traces Found Of Ancient Nearby Supernova. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/traces-found-ancient-nearby-supernova/. 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 (2001) Critical Infrastructure Protection: Significant Challenges in Protecting Federal Systems and Developing Analysis and Warning Capabilities. 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

Park JK (2012) Target Identification, Therapeutic Application and Maturation Mechanism of microRNAs. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio 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

Kelly MA (2003) BUSINESS TRAVEL: ON THE GROUND -- Paris; A City of Good Food, Fashion and Corporate Drama. New York Times C8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knight 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Knight 2001; White and Harper 2012).

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

Two authors: (White and Harper 2012)
Three or more authors: (Athale et al. 2008)

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