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

Del Genio, A. D. (2002). Atmospheric science. The dust settles on water vapor feedback. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5568), 665–666.

A journal article with 2 authors

Short, J., & Murray, S. (2011). A frozen hell. Nature, 472(7342), 162–163.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jarillo-Herrero, P., van Dam, J. A., & Kouwenhoven, L. P. (2006). Quantum supercurrent transistors in carbon nanotubes. Nature, 439(7079), 953–956.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Welter, S., Brunner, K., Hofstraat, J. W., & De Cola, L. (2003). Electroluminescent device with reversible switching between red and green emission. Nature, 421(6918), 54–57.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnson Jr. MD, W. H., & Moller MD, J. H. (2014). Pediatric Cardiology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Cloete, N., Maassen, P., Fehnel, R., Moja, T., Gibbon, T., & Perold, H. (Eds.). (2006). Transformation in Higher Education: Global Pressures and Local Realities (Vol. 10). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Whittaker, D. J. (2009). Phylogeography of Kloss’s Gibbon (Hylobates Klossii) Populations and Implications for Conservation Planning in the Mentawai Islands. In D. Whittaker & S. Lappan (Eds.), The Gibbons: New Perspectives on Small Ape Socioecology and Population Biology (pp. 73–89). New York, NY: Springer.

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

Luntz, S. (2017, February 15). Rediscovered Essay Reveals Churchill’s Thoughts On Alien Life. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/rediscovered-essay-reveals-churchills-thoughts-on-alien-life/. 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. (2010). National Airspace System: Setting On-Time Performance Targets at Congested Airports Could Help Focus FAA’s Actions (No. GAO-10-542). 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

Solari, S. (2009). A unified anatomical theory and computational model of cognitive information processing in the mammalian brain and the introduction of DNA reco codes (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

Vecsey, G. (2011, March 18). Modest Senior Gives Butler Special Moment. New York Times, p. B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Del Genio 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Del Genio 2002; Short and Murray 2011).

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

Two authors: (Short and Murray 2011)
Three or more authors: (Welter et al. 2003)

About the journal

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