How to format your references using the Wood Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Wood Science and Technology. 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

Gibson G (2015) Human genetics. GTEx detects genetic effects. Science 348:640–641

A journal article with 2 authors

Ernst MO, Banks MS (2002) Humans integrate visual and haptic information in a statistically optimal fashion. Nature 415:429–433

A journal article with 3 authors

Moynier F, Yin Q-Z, Schauble E (2011) Isotopic evidence of Cr partitioning into Earth’s core. Science 331:1417–1420

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Watson TF, Philips SGJ, Kawakami E, et al (2018) A programmable two-qubit quantum processor in silicon. Nature 555:633–637

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sluga H (2011) Wittgenstein. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Taylor D (2014) Handbook of Insomnia. Springer Healthcare Ltd., Tarporley

A chapter in an edited book

Dörfler W, Lechleiter A, Plum M, et al (2011) An introduction to direct and inverse scattering theory. In: Lechleiter A, Plum M, Schneider G, Wieners C (eds) Photonic Crystals: Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Approximation. Springer, Basel, pp 79–126

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 Wood Science and Technology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) New Calculation Suggests China’s Greenhouse Emissions Have Been Overestimated. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/new-calculation-suggests-china-s-greenhouse-emissions-have-been-overestimated/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1980) The Road to a Billion Dollar Saving: A Team Effort. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wang E (2017) Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility Investigation of the Coyote Mountain Shear Zone. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

(nyt) SK (2005) World Briefing | Europe: Georgia: F.B.I Rules Premier’s Death Was Accidental. New York Times A2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gibson 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ernst and Banks 2002; Gibson 2015).

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

Two authors: (Ernst and Banks 2002)
Three or more authors: (Watson et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Wood Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Wood Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0043-7719
ISSN (online)	1432-5225
Scope	Forestry Plant Science Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering General Materials Science