How to format your references using the Journal of Fungi citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Fungi. 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

Normile, D. AGRICULTURE: Variety Spices Up Chinese Rice Yields. Science 2000, 289, 1122b–1123b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Paul, W.E.; Mage, R.G. Elvin A. Kabat (1914-2000). Nature 2000, 407, 316.

A journal article with 3 authors

Head, I.M.; Jones, D.M.; Larter, S.R. Biological Activity in the Deep Subsurface and the Origin of Heavy Oil. Nature 2003, 426, 344–352.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tanaka, M.; Chien, P.; Naber, N.; Cooke, R.; Weissman, J.S. Conformational Variations in an Infectious Protein Determine Prion Strain Differences. Nature 2004, 428, 323–328.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

P. Wen, E.; Ellis, R.; S. Pujar, N. Vaccine Development and Manufacturing; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2014; ISBN 9781118870914.

An edited book

Hurst, E. Bridging the Gap to University Mathematics; Gould, M., Ed.; Springer: London, 2009; ISBN 9781848002890.

A chapter in an edited book

Böcherer, S.; Nagaoka, S. On P-Adic Properties of Siegel Modular Forms. In Automorphic Forms: Research in Number Theory from Oman; Heim, B., Al-Baali, M., Ibukiyama, T., Rupp, F., Eds.; Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; pp. 47–66 ISBN 9783319113517.

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 Journal of Fungi.

Blog post

Fang, J. What Yellowstone’s Thermal Pools Looked Like Before Decades of Tourism Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-yellowstones-thermal-pools-looked-decades-tourists-coins/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Computer Procurement: FAA’s $1.5-Billion Computer Resources Nucleus Project; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1989;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Baghdadi, M. A Comparison of Gender Representation in English (EFL) and Arabic (AFL) Textbooks in Iran: A Critical Discourse Analysis. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2012.

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

Saslow, L. Megyn Kelly and Douglas Brunt. New York Times 2008, ST13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Journal of Fungi
Abbreviation	J. Fungi (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2309-608X
Scope