How to format your references using the Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Scandinavian Journal of Forest 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

Sagdeev R. 2007. History of science. Sputnik and the Soviets. Science. 318(5847):51–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Verhulst S, Tinbergen JM. 2001. Variation in food supply, time of breeding, and energy expenditure in birds. Science. 294(5542):471.

A journal article with 3 authors

Collins FS, Gray GM, Bucher JR. 2008. Toxicology. Transforming environmental health protection. Science. 319(5865):906–907.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Dixon JE, Leist L, Langmuir C, Schilling J-G. 2002. Recycled dehydrated lithosphere observed in plume-influenced mid-ocean-ridge basalt. Nature. 420(6914):385–389.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dixon CS. 2010. Protestants. Oxford, UK: wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Eigenmann R, Li Z, Midkiff SP, editors. 2005. Languages and Compilers for High Performance Computing: 17th International Workshop, LCPC 2004, West Lafayette, IN, USA, September 22-24, 2004, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chopko BW, Georgy B. 2015. Anterior and Lateral Approaches to the Lumbar Spine. In: Manfrè L, editor. Spinal Instability. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 81–87.

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 Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research.

Blog post

Evans K. 2016. Here’s How People Judge You Based On Your Face. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/heres-how-people-judge-you-based-on-your-face/

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. 1997. Student Loans: Default Rates at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. 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

Foster RL. 2016. The Perceptions of Language Minority Parents Regarding Informed Consent in the Special Education Process [Doctoral dissertation]. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Kishkovsky S. 2003. BP’s Deal With TNK Is Approved By Russia. New York Times.:W1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sagdeev 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Verhulst and Tinbergen 2001; Sagdeev 2007).

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

Two authors: (Verhulst and Tinbergen 2001)
Three or more authors: (Dixon et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research
Abbreviation	Scand. J. For. Res.
ISSN (print)	0282-7581
ISSN (online)	1651-1891
Scope	Forestry