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

Dobson JE. 2009. Big Brother has evolved. Nature 458:968.

A journal article with 2 authors

Junge W, Nelson N. 2005. Structural biology. Nature’s rotary electromotors. Science (New York, NY) 308:642–644.

A journal article with 3 authors

Panda S, Hogenesch JB, Kay SA. 2002. Circadian rhythms from flies to human. Nature 417:329–335.

A journal article with 30 or more authors

Du Z, Munye MM, Tagalakis AD, Manunta MDI, Hart SL. 2014. The role of the helper lipid on the DNA transfection efficiency of lipopolyplex formulations. Scientific Reports 4:7107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnston D. 2011. A Brief History of Justice. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Srivastava S. 2010. Novel Biomaterials: Decontamination of Toxic Metals from Wastewater. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. X, 190 p. 42 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Sanz AG, Sebastianelli F, Gianturco FA. 2012. Following Resonant Compound States after Electron Attachment. In: G. García Gómez-Tejedor, and M.C. Fuss, eds. Radiation Damage in Biomolecular Systems. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. p. 71–86.

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

Luntz S. 2015. Report Warns Of Human-Induced Earthquakes. 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. 2005. Medicaid: States’ Efforts to Maximize Federal Reimbursements Highlight Need for Improved Federal Oversight. 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

Harris AE. 2017. A quantitative study of the impact of CFO and auditor turnover on internal control weaknesses. Doctoral dissertation. Capella 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

Greenhouse L. 2008. Conflicts for Justices Halt Appeal in Apartheid Case. New York Times A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dobson 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Junge and Nelson 2005; Dobson 2009).

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

Two authors: (Junge and Nelson 2005)
Three or more authors: (Du et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mycologia
Abbreviation	Mycologia
ISSN (print)	0027-5514
ISSN (online)	1557-2536
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science Cell Biology Genetics Molecular Biology Physiology General Medicine