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

Kerr RA (2000) PALEOCLIMATE: An Appealing Snowball Earth That’s Still Hard to Swallow. Science 287:1734–1736

A journal article with 2 authors

Fortey R, Chatterton B (2003) A Devonian trilobite with an eyeshade. Science 301:1689

A journal article with 3 authors

Cowen RK, Paris CB, Srinivasan A (2006) Scaling of connectivity in marine populations. Science 311:522–527

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chandra V, Huang P, Hamuro Y, et al (2008) Structure of the intact PPAR-gamma-RXR- nuclear receptor complex on DNA. Nature 456:350–356

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bahadori A (2013) Waste Management in the Chemical and Petroleum Industries. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Madhavan G, Oakley B, Green D, et al (eds) (2013) Practicing Sustainability. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Bonnin D, Travers C (2013) α-Register. In: Baldoni R, Nisse N, Steen M van (eds) Principles of Distributed Systems: 17th International Conference, OPODIS 2013, Nice, France, December 16-18, 2013. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 53–67

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 (2015) Jaw-Bone Discovery Reveals More About Secret Sex Lives Of Neanderthals And Early Humans. In: IFLScience. 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 (1998) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Business Continuity and Contingency Planning (Exposure Draft) (Superseded by AIMD-10.1.19). 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

Farrell BM (2010) Body composition changes and work-efficiency effects from diet modification and incorporation of an at-home exercise regimen. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Vecsey G (2010) Here’s the Kicker: He Was Suddenly A Punter, Too. New York Times SP3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kerr 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kerr 2000; Fortey and Chatterton 2003).

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

Two authors: (Fortey and Chatterton 2003)
Three or more authors: (Chandra 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