How to format your references using the MycoKeys citation style

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

Fortey R (2001) Evolution. The Cambrian explosion exploded? Science (New York, N.Y.) 293: 438–439.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peel MC, McMahon TA (2006) Continental runoff: a quality-controlled global runoff data set. Nature 444: E14; discussion E14-5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bennett MJ, Lebrón JA, Bjorkman PJ (2000) Crystal structure of the hereditary haemochromatosis protein HFE complexed with transferrin receptor. Nature 403: 46–53.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sgamma T, Jackson A, Muleo R, Thomas B, Massiah A (2014) TEMPRANILLO is a regulator of juvenility in plants. Scientific reports 4: 3704.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang B, Wang X (2014) Chaos Analysis and Chaotic EMI Suppression of DC-DC Converters. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

Król D, Madeyski L, Nguyen NT (Eds) (2016) 642 Recent Developments in Intelligent Information and Database Systems. 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham, XII, 468 p. 145 illus., 54 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Ma B, Chen H, Chen S-Y, Zhang J-S (2014) Roles of Ethylene in Plant Growth and Responses to Stresses. In: Tran L-SP, Pal S (Eds), Phytohormones: A Window to Metabolism, Signaling and Biotechnological Applications. Springer, New York, NY, 81–118.

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 MycoKeys.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Colossal Danish Wind Turbine Breaks 24-Hour Energy Output Record. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/colossal-danish-wind-turbine-breaks-24hour-energy-output-record/ (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

Government Accountability Office (2001) Telecommunications: Metropolitan Area Acquisition Program Implementation and Management. 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

Aquino-Centeno S (2009) Contesting social memories and identities in the Zapotec Sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona

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

Steven Lee Myers;, Joyce H. Man contributed reporting for this article (2005) Emphasizing Creativity, Not Collectivity. New York Times: B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fortey 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Fortey 2001, Peel and McMahon 2006).

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

Two authors: (Peel and McMahon 2006)
Three or more authors: (Sgamma et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	MycoKeys
ISSN (print)	1314-4057
ISSN (online)	1314-4049
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