How to format your references using the New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science citation style

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

Evans, R. L. (2014). Geophysics: Making the Earth move. Nature, 509(7498), 40–41.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pashkin, A., & Leitenstorfer, A. (2014). Physics. Particle physics in a superconductor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6201), 1121–1122.

A journal article with 3 authors

Silbergeld, E., Lerman, S., & Hushka, L. (2004). Ethics. Human health research ethics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5686), 949.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Du, C., Falini, G., Fermani, S., Abbott, C., & Moradian-Oldak, J. (2005). Supramolecular assembly of amelogenin nanospheres into birefringent microribbons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5714), 1450–1454.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sadati, N., Dumont, G. A., Hamed, K. A., & Gruver, W. A. (2012). Hybrid Control and Motion Planning of Dynamical Legged Locomotion. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lendeckel, U., & Hooper, N. M. (Eds.). (2005). Proteases In The Brain (Vol. 3). Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Silipo, A., & Molinaro, A. (2010). The Diversity of the Core Oligosaccharide in Lipopolysaccharides. In X. Wang & P. J. Quinn (Eds.), Endotoxins: Structure, Function and Recognition (pp. 69–99). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, February 3). A March For Science Will Take Place Around The World On April 22. Here’s How To Get Involved. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/a-march-for-science-will-take-place-around-the-world-on-april-22-heres-how-to-get-inolved/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1993). Airline Competition: Industry Competitive and Financial Issues (No. T-RCED-93-49). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Duran, P. E. (2010). Factors and prevention strategies to fight childhood obesity (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Koblin, J. (2017, February 13). Grammy Awards Gain a Million More Viewers. New York Times, p. C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Evans 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Evans 2014; Pashkin and Leitenstorfer 2014).

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

Two authors: (Pashkin and Leitenstorfer 2014)
Three or more authors: (Du et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science
Abbreviation	N. Z. J. For. Sci.
ISSN (online)	1179-5395
Scope