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

Adam D. 2002. Manchester merger set to proceed as southerners go solo. Nature 420:350.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li D, Kaner RB. 2008. Materials science. Graphene-based materials. Science (New York, NY) 320:1170–1171.

A journal article with 3 authors

Noskov SY, Bernèche S, Roux B. 2004. Control of ion selectivity in potassium channels by electrostatic and dynamic properties of carbonyl ligands. Nature 431:830–834.

A journal article with 30 or more authors

Liu P, Zhang H, Lv M, Hu M, Li Z, Gao C, Xu P, Ma C. 2014. Enzymatic production of 5-aminovalerate from L-lysine using L-lysine monooxygenase and 5-aminovaleramide amidohydrolase. Scientific Reports 4:5657.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Clarke A, Thompson A, Jenkinson E, Rumsey N, Newell R. 2013. CBT for Appearance Anxiety. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Hübel A. 2012. Biopatent Law: Patent Strategies and Patent Management. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. XII, 44 p. 1 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Davison SG, Sulston KW. 2006. Anderson-Newns-Grimley Model. In: K.W. Sulston, ed. Green-Function Theory of Chemisorption. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. p. 45–74.

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. Where Is All The “Missing” Carbon Going? 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. 1992. Nonfederal Student Loans. 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

Wright C. 2010. A quantitative study of retirement knowledge among Spring 2009 Arizona high school graduates. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix.

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

Hubbard B. 2017. Militants and Refugees Are Bused Back to Syria. New York Times A5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Adam 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Adam 2002; Li and Kaner 2008).

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

Two authors: (Li and Kaner 2008)
Three or more authors: (Liu 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

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