How to format your references using the Fungal Genetics and Biology citation style

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

Epstein, I.R., 2007. Chemistry. Can droplets and bubbles think? Science 315, 775–776.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bartek, J., Lukas, J., 2001. Cell cycle. Order from destruction. Science 294, 66–67.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reyes, N., Ginter, C., Boudker, O., 2009. Transport mechanism of a bacterial homologue of glutamate transporters. Nature 462, 880–885.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Klose, R.J., Yamane, K., Bae, Y., Zhang, D., Erdjument-Bromage, H., Tempst, P., Wong, J., Zhang, Y., 2006. The transcriptional repressor JHDM3A demethylates trimethyl histone H3 lysine 9 and lysine 36. Nature 442, 312–316.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li, W., 2004. Risk Assessment of Power Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kim, T.-H., Ko, D.-S., Vasilakos, T., Stoica, A., Abawajy, J. (Eds.), 2012. Computer Applications for Communication, Networking, and Digital Contents: International Conferences, FGCN and DCA 2012, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2012, Gangneug, Korea, December 16-19, 2012. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Derrick, J., Boiten, E.A., 2014. Calculating Refinements, in: Boiten, E.A. (Ed.), Refinement in Z and Object-Z: Foundations and Advanced Applications. Springer, London, pp. 129–150.

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 Genetics and Biology.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. Volcanic Popcorn To Keep Houses Warm [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/volcanic-popcorn-keep-houses-warm/ (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, 2009. Survey of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (GAO-09-867SP, September 2009), an E-supplement to GAO-09-868 (No. GAO-09-867SP). 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

Reimer, E.L., 2010. Grant proposal: Support services for families of children diagnosed with autism (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2016. Review: ‘Mifune: The Last Samurai’ Celebrates a Fearless Actor. New York Times C8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Epstein, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bartek and Lukas, 2001; Epstein, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Bartek and Lukas, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Klose et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fungal Genetics and Biology
Abbreviation	Fungal Genet. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1087-1845
Scope	Genetics Microbiology