How to format your references using the Fungal Ecology citation style

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

Earle, S., 2010. Q&A: Sylvia Earle on protecting our seas. Nature 465, 165.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, R., Lal, R., 2014. Synthetic apatite nanoparticles as a phosphorus fertilizer for soybean (Glycine max). Sci. Rep. 4, 5686.

A journal article with 3 authors

Giles, S., Friedman, M., Brazeau, M.D., 2015. Osteichthyan-like cranial conditions in an Early Devonian stem gnathostome. Nature 520, 82–85.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Keenlyside, N.S., Latif, M., Jungclaus, J., Kornblueh, L., Roeckner, E., 2008. Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector. Nature 453, 84–88.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Danby, F.W., 2014. Acne. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Cleophas, T.J., Zwinderman, A.H., Cleophas, T.F., Cleophas, E.P. (Eds.), 2009. Statistics Applied to Clinical Trials. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Fu, W., Xiao, N., Lu, X., 2007. QoS-Guaranteed Ring Replication Management with Strong Consistency, in: Chang, K.C.-C., Wang, W., Chen, L., Ellis, C.A., Hsu, C.-H., Tsoi, A.C., Wang, H. (Eds.), Advances in Web and Network Technologies, and Information Management: APWeb/WAIM 2007 International Workshops: DBMAN 2007, WebETrends 2007, PAIS 2007 and ASWAN 2007, Huang Shan, China, June 16-18, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 37–49.

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 Ecology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Born this way? An evolutionary view of ‘gay genes’ [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/born-way-evolutionary-view-‘gay-genes’/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1977. Secretary of the Senate Accountability as of March 31, 1977 (No. GGD-77-66). 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

Krepstekies, C., 2010. News Media Representations of Women in the U.S. Military Post September 11, 2001 (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Mueller, B., Wang, V., Piccoli, S., 2017. 3 Men From Shelter Held in Sexual Assault on Woman Leaving Church. New York Times A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Earle, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Earle, 2010; Liu and Lal, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Liu and Lal, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Keenlyside et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fungal Ecology
Abbreviation	Fungal Ecol.
ISSN (print)	1754-5048
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science Ecological Modelling Ecology