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

Marx V. 2014. High-security labs: Life in the danger zone. Nature 505:437–441.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tomasetti C, Vogelstein B. 2015. Cancer etiology. Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions. Science (New York, NY) 347:78–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu Q, Clark MS, Palmiter RD. 2012. Deciphering a neuronal circuit that mediates appetite. Nature 483:594–597.

A journal article with 30 or more authors

Chen L, Park S-M, Tumanov AV, Hau A, Sawada K, Feig C, Turner JR, Fu Y-X, Romero IL, Lengyel E, Peter ME. 2010. CD95 promotes tumour growth. Nature 465:492–496.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. 2011. Recognizing Catastrophic Incident Warning Signs in the Process Industries. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cooper G, ed. 2006. Essential Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press. XVIII, 348 p. 5 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Lord JS, Brooks DR. 2014. Bat Endoparasites: A UK Perspective. In: S. Klimpel, and H. Mehlhorn, eds. Bats (Chiroptera) as Vectors of Diseases and Parasites: Facts and Myths. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p. 63–86.

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

Hale T. 2017. Controversial Study Wants To Resurrect Brain-Dead People. 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. 1990. Biotechnology: Processing Delays Continue for Growing Backlog of Patent Applications. 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

Wisdom V. 2015. Reverie: A portal to the numinous—an exploration into early childhood psychospiritual awareness. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Brantley B. 2017. Some Friends Just Aren’t Huggers. New York Times C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marx 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Marx 2014; Tomasetti and Vogelstein 2015).

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

Two authors: (Tomasetti and Vogelstein 2015)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2010)

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