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

Alberts, B., 2004. A wake-up call. Nature 431, 1041.

A journal article with 2 authors

Filardi, C.E., Moyle, R.G., 2005. Single origin of a pan-Pacific bird group and upstream colonization of Australasia. Nature 438, 216–219.

A journal article with 3 authors

Muchnik, L., Aral, S., Taylor, S.J., 2013. Social influence bias: a randomized experiment. Science 341, 647–651.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Masly, J.P., Jones, C.D., Noor, M.A.F., Locke, J., Orr, H.A., 2006. Gene transposition as a cause of hybrid sterility in Drosophila. Science 313, 1448–1450.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gasser, W., Heiner, E., Elk, K., 2005. Greensche Funktionen in Festkörper- und Vielteilchenphysik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Chung, K.F., Widdicombe, J. (Eds.), 2009. Pharmacology and Therapeutics of Cough, Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Cazzulani, G., Ferrari, M., Resta, F., Ripamonti, F., 2011. A Numerical and Experimental Analysis for the Active Vibration Control of a Concrete Placing Boom, in: Vasques, C.M.A., Dias Rodrigues, J. (Eds.), Vibration and Structural Acoustics Analysis: Current Research and Related Technologies. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 79–97.

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. Photons Couldn’t Easily Escape Ancient Galaxies [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2016. Federal Research Grants: Opportunities Remain for Agencies to Streamline Administrative Requirements (No. GAO-16-573). 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

Platt, J.B., 2008. Feast in the time of terror: Stalinist temporal paradox and the 1937 Pushkin Jubilee (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Hartocollis, A., 2016. Educator Recounts ‘Painful Experience’ of Halloween Email Furor at Yale. New York Times A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alberts, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Alberts, 2004; Filardi and Moyle, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Filardi and Moyle, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Masly et al., 2006)

About the journal

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