How to format your references using the Fungal Diversity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fungal Diversity. 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

Seitzinger S (2010) A sustainable planet needs scientists to think ahead. Nature 468:601

A journal article with 2 authors

Cockell CS, Stokes MD (2004) Ecology: widespread colonization by polar hypoliths. Nature 431:414

A journal article with 3 authors

Glazier AM, Nadeau JH, Aitman TJ (2002) Finding genes that underlie complex traits. Science 298:2345–2349

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang J, Liu X, Blume R, et al (2008) Surface-modified carbon nanotubes catalyze oxidative dehydrogenation of n-butane. Science 322:73–77

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joseph G (2012) Doing Physics with Scientific Notebook. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK

An edited book

Somayajulu DRS, Lieb K-P (eds) (2005) IWNMS 2004: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Nanomaterials, Magnetic Ions and Magnetic Semiconductors Studied Mostly by Hyperfine Interactions (IWNMS 2004) held in Baroda, India, 10–14 February 2004. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Yoo IS, Reitelshöfer S, Landgraf M, Franke J (2015) Artificial Muscles, Made of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators - A Promising Solution for Inherently Compliant Future Robots. In: Verl A, Albu-Schäffer A, Brock O, Raatz A (eds) Soft Robotics: Transferring Theory to Application. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 33–41

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 Fungal Diversity.

Blog post

Andrews R (2017) We Finally Know Why People Are Left- Or Right-Handed. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/finally-know-people-left-righthanded/. 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 (2003) Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations: Some Coordination Efforts Among Programs Providing Transportation Services, but Obstacles Persist. 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

Smith B (2013) Analysis of hydraulic and financial operations of a recycled water system: A case study of the Orange County water district’s green acres project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Ding G (2015) How to Cheat on Taxes in China. New York Times A29

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Seitzinger 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Cockell and Stokes 2004; Seitzinger 2010).

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

Two authors: (Cockell and Stokes 2004)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fungal Diversity
Abbreviation	Fungal Divers.
ISSN (print)	1560-2745
ISSN (online)	1878-9129
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science Ecology