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

Grossniklaus U. 2009. Plant science. Paternal patterning cue. Science. 323(5920):1439–1440.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huxley A, Green AG. 2007. Physics. Electrons acquire a split personality in bismuth. Science. 317(5845):1694–1695.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mohr JT, Krout MR, Stoltz BM. 2008. Natural products as inspiration for the development of asymmetric catalysis. Nature. 455(7211):323–332.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Liu H, Shen X, Tang H, Li J, Xiang T, Yu W. 2013. Using microPET imaging in quantitative verification of the acupuncture effect in ischemia stroke treatment. Sci Rep. 3:1070.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kölle W. 2017. Wasseranalysen - richtig beurteilt. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Balsamo MS, Knottenbelt WJ, Marin A, editors. 2013. Computer Performance Engineering: 10th European Workshop, EPEW 2013, Venice, Italy, September 16-17, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Liang X, Ebeida MS, Zhang Y. 2009. Guaranteed-Quality All-Quadrilateral Mesh Generation with Feature Preservation. In: Clark BW, editor. Proceedings of the 18th International Meshing Roundtable. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 45–63.

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

Andrew E. 2014. Scientists Discover 500 Million-Year-Old Fossilized Embryos. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-discover-500-million-year-old-fossilized-embryos/

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. 2002. Telecommunications: Additional Federal Efforts Could Help Advance Digital Television Transition. 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

Woods RA. 2017. Missouri Legislator and Administrator Perceptions of Federal Government Involvement in Education [Doctoral dissertation]. St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Brantley B. 2017. A Star Is Born (and Born and Born). New York Times.:C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grossniklaus 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Huxley and Green 2007; Grossniklaus 2009).

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

Two authors: (Huxley and Green 2007)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al. 2013)

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