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

Both C. 2007. Comment on “Rapid advance of spring arrival dates in long-distance migratory birds.” Science. 315(5812):598; author reply 598.

A journal article with 2 authors

Griffin AS, West SA. 2003. Kin discrimination and the benefit of helping in cooperatively breeding vertebrates. Science. 302(5645):634–636.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moon-van der Staay SY, De Wachter R, Vaulot D. 2001. Oceanic 18S rDNA sequences from picoplankton reveal unsuspected eukaryotic diversity. Nature. 409(6820):607–610.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Komiyama S, Astafiev O, Antonov V V, Kutsuwa T, Hirai H. 2000. A single-photon detector in the far-infrared range. Nature. 403(6768):405–407.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shreves R, Dunwoodie B. 2011. Drupal® 7 Bible. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Proulx T, editor. 2011. Structural Dynamics and Renewable Energy, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 28th IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2010. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Strenzke F. 2010. A Smart Card Implementation of the McEliece PKC. In: Samarati P, Tunstall M, Posegga J, Markantonakis K, Sauveron D, editors. Information Security Theory and Practices Security and Privacy of Pervasive Systems and Smart Devices: 4th IFIP WG 112 International Workshop, WISTP 2010, Passau, Germany, April 12-14, 2010 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 47–59.

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

Hale T. 2016. Farmers Are Using Laser Beams In The Battle Against Geese. IFLScience.

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. 2015. Information Security: Department of Education and Other Federal Agencies Need to Better Implement Controls. 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

Pepper I. 2010. On the Difference between Serialism and Seriality [Doctoral dissertation]. New York, NY: Columbia 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

Sanger DE, Mazzetti M, Hubbard B. 2016. Errant Strike Impairs Effort to Calm Syria. New York Times.:A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Both 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Griffin and West 2003; Both 2007).

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

Two authors: (Griffin and West 2003)
Three or more authors: (Komiyama et al. 2000)

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