How to format your references using the Mycological Progress citation style

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

Lawler A (2000) ASTROBIOLOGY: Ames’s Proposal for Lab Triggers Battle at NASA. Science 289:23a

A journal article with 2 authors

Crudgington HS, Siva-Jothy MT (2000) Genital damage, kicking and early death. Nature 407:855–856

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen X, Parker D, Singh DJ (2013) Importance of non-parabolic band effects in the thermoelectric properties of semiconductors. Sci Rep 3:3168

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pastalkova E, Itskov V, Amarasingham A, Buzsáki G (2008) Internally generated cell assembly sequences in the rat hippocampus. Science 321:1322–1327

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 (2015) Guidelines for Initiating Events and Independent Protection Layers in Layer of Protection Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Tse PW, Mathew J, Wong K, et al (eds) (2015) Engineering Asset Management - Systems, Professional Practices and Certification: Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM 2013) & the 3rd International Conference on Utility Management & Safety (ICUMAS). Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Kechagias D, Laspas F (2015) Imaging of Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasms. In: Sakorafas GH, Smyrniotis V, Sarr MG (eds) Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasms: From Imaging to Differential Diagnosis and Management. Springer, Milano, pp 37–52

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 Mycological Progress.

Blog post

Andrew E (2016) There Be Dragons? Creatures You Might Find On A Real Journey To The Centre Of The Earth. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/there-be-dragons-creatures-you-might-find-real-journey-centre-earth/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2003) Trends in State Capital Investment in Highways, an E-supplement to GAO-03-744R. 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

Alsobrook JA (2013) Music Education in America: A Content Analysis and National Perspective of Standards-Based Outcomes for K–8 General Music. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Stewart JB (2016) Hedge Fund Math: Heads or Tails, They Win. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lawler 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lawler 2000; Crudgington and Siva-Jothy 2000).

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

Two authors: (Crudgington and Siva-Jothy 2000)
Three or more authors: (Pastalkova et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mycological Progress
Abbreviation	Mycol. Prog.
ISSN (print)	1617-416X
ISSN (online)	1861-8952
Scope	Plant Science