How to format your references using the Mycobiology citation style

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

[1]

Helmuth L. ALZHEIMER’S CONGRESS: Further Progress on a. Science. 2000;289:375a.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kumar K, Yang E-H. On the growth mode of two-lobed curvilinear graphene domains at atmospheric pressure. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2571.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Vinothkumar KR, Zhu J, Hirst J. Architecture of mammalian respiratory complex I. Nature. 2014;515:80–84.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Fan Z, Wang J, Sullivan MB, Huan A, Singh DJ, Ong KP. Structural instability of epitaxial (001) BiFeO₃ thin films under tensile strain. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4631.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kwartler T. Text Mining in Practice with R. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Nenajdenko V, editor. Fluorine in Heterocyclic Chemistry Volume 2: 6-Membered Heterocycles. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bolatkale M, Breems LJ, Makinwa KAA. A 2 GHz Continuous-Time ΔΣ ADC with Dynamic Error Correction. In: Breems LJ, Makinwa KAA, editors. High Speed and Wide Bandwidth Delta-Sigma ADCs. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 95–116.

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 Mycobiology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Compassionate Caretaking Toward A Dying Group Member In Marmosets. IFLScience. 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/compassionate-caretaking-toward-dying-group-member-marmosets/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Airline Competition: Barriers to Entry Continue in Some Domestic Markets. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Flamenco E. A financial abuse prevention program for older adults: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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

[1]

Hubbard B, Lipton E, Levin D, Paddock RC. With Glitzy Openings in Dubai and Vancouver, Trump’s Roles Collide. New York Times. 2017:A12.

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	Mycobiology
ISSN (print)	1229-8093
ISSN (online)	2092-9323
Scope