How to format your references using the International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms (IJM). 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

Guzmán MG. Global voices of science. Deciphering dengue: the Cuban experience. Science. 2005 Sep 2;309(5740):1495–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Finke DL, Snyder WE. Niche partitioning increases resource exploitation by diverse communities. Science. 2008 Sep 12;321(5895):1488–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mazmanian SK, Round JL, Kasper DL. A microbial symbiosis factor prevents intestinal inflammatory disease. Nature. 2008 May 29;453(7195):620–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nussey DH, Postma E, Gienapp P, Visser ME. Selection on heritable phenotypic plasticity in a wild bird population. Science. 2005 Oct 14;310(5746):304–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stokes DJ. Principles and Practice of Variable Pressure/Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (VP-ESEM). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Henein MY, editor. Clinical Echocardiography. 2nd ed. 2012. London: Springer; 2012. XI, 317 p. 439 illus., 303 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Ranasinghe DC, Harrison M, Cole PH. EPC Network Architecture. In: Cole PH, Ranasinghe DC, editors. Networked RFID Systems and Lightweight Cryptography: Raising Barriers to Product Counterfeiting. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 59–78.

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 International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms.

Blog post

Taub B. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016. The Neural Basis For Psychosomatic Illness May Have Been Discovered.

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. Longer Combination Trucks: Potential Infrastructure Impacts, Productivity Benefits, and Safety Concerns. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Aug. Report No.: RCED-94-106.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Adijanto J. Metabolic acid transport in human retinal pigment epithelium [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2010.

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

Hubbard B. Learning to Speak Al Jazeera. New York Times. 2017 Jan 14;SR3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1,2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms
ISSN (print)	1521-9437
ISSN (online)	1940-4344
Scope