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

Brown, R.H., 2009. Medicine. A reinnervating microRNA. Science 326, 1494–1495.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rey, G., Reddy, A.B., 2013. Physiology. Rhythmic respiration. Science 342, 570–571.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, J., Han, D., Zhao, Y.-P., 2014. Kinetic behaviour of the cells touching substrate: the interfacial stiffness guides cell spreading. Sci. Rep. 4, 3910.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xiao, X., Yao, Y., Zhou, L.-M., Wang, X., 2014. Distribution of quantum Fisher information in asymmetric cloning machines. Sci. Rep. 4, 7361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fitschen, K., 2013. Building Reliable Trading Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Quirk, T.J., 2016. Excel 2016 for Biological and Life Sciences Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems, Excel for Statistics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Griol, D., Molina, J.M., 2011. Context-Aware Conversational Agents Using POMDPs and Agenda-Based Simulation, in: Molina, J.M., Corredera, J.R.C., Pérez, M.F.C., Ortega-García, J., Barbolla, A.M.B. (Eds.), User-Centric Technologies and Applications: Proceedings of the CONTEXTS 2011 Workshop, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 29–36.

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

Carpineti, A., 2017. Scientists Spot Rare “Dragon-Skin” In Antarctica [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-see-rare-dragonskin-ice-in-antarctica/ (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, 1995. Federal Research: Information on Fees for Selected Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (No. RCED-96-31FS). 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

Cummins, K., 2015. A Mixed Methods Study on The Leader in Me Process: How Does Fostering Student Leadership Capacity Influence Behavior, Efficacy, and Achievement? (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2011. Defections Fuel A Complicated Rivalry. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brown, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Brown, 2009; Rey and Reddy, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Rey and Reddy, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Xiao et al., 2014)

About the journal

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