How to format your references using the Mycologia citation style

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

Gillett NP. 2005. Climate modelling: Northern Hemisphere circulation. Nature 437:496.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zucker I, Beery AK. 2010. Males still dominate animal studies. Nature 465:690.

A journal article with 3 authors

Freimund DL, Aflatooni K, Batelaan H. 2001. Observation of the Kapitza-Dirac effect. Nature 413:142–143.

A journal article with 30 or more authors

Kota DJ, DiCarlo B, Hetz RA, Smith P, Cox CS Jr, Olson SD. 2014. Differential MSC activation leads to distinct mononuclear leukocyte binding mechanisms. Scientific Reports 4:4565.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vona LW. 2017. Fraud Data Analytics Methodology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Akhgar B, Bayerl PS, Sampson F, eds. 2016. Open Source Intelligence Investigation: From Strategy to Implementation. Cham: Springer International Publishing. XIV, 304 p. 40 illus., 35 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Abraham I, Chechik S. 2014. Distance Labels with Optimal Local Stretch. In: J. Esparza, P. Fraigniaud, T. Husfeldt, and E. Koutsoupias, eds. Automata, Languages, and Programming: 41st International Colloquium, ICALP 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 8-11, 2014, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p. 52–63.

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 Mycologia.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2016. Solar Impulse Plane Completes Record-Breaking Flight Around The World Powered Only By The Sun. IFLScience.

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. 1997. National Airspace System: Issues in Allocating Costs for Air Traffic Services to DOD and Other Users. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wenzel AB. 2009. Learning the culture of teaching: A middle school perspective. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University.

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

Kenigsberg B. 2017. Fangs, Fur and Plenty of Firepower. New York Times C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gillett 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Gillett 2005; Zucker and Beery 2010).

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

Two authors: (Zucker and Beery 2010)
Three or more authors: (Kota et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mycologia
Abbreviation	Mycologia
ISSN (print)	0027-5514
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science Cell Biology Genetics Molecular Biology Physiology General Medicine