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

Holt T (2000) Subpoenaed in Syracuse. Nature 407:841

A journal article with 2 authors

DeKosky ST, Marek K (2003) Looking backward to move forward: early detection of neurodegenerative disorders. Science 302:830–834

A journal article with 3 authors

Dumont S, Salmon ED, Mitchison TJ (2012) Deformations within moving kinetochores reveal different sites of active and passive force generation. Science 337:355–358

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lunin VV, Dobrovetsky E, Khutoreskaya G, et al (2006) Crystal structure of the CorA Mg2+ transporter. Nature 440:833–837

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vettese F (2015) The Essential Retirement Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Schanz D (2011) Business Taxation and Financial Decisions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Abidi K, Xu J-X (2015) Discrete-Time Adaptive Posicast Control. In: Xu J-X (ed) Advanced Discrete-Time Control: Designs and Applications. Springer, Singapore, pp 79–107

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

Hamilton K (2016) Brazil’s Sewage Woes Reflect The Growing Global Water Quality Crisis. 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 (1973) Use of Computers at Naval Laboratories. 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

Tambornini TF (2013) Supportive and subsidized housing solutions for Sonoma County: A grant project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Pilon M, Pianigiani G (2013) Agent Blames Trainer for Drug-Test Failures. New York Times B10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holt 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Holt 2000; DeKosky and Marek 2003).

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

Two authors: (DeKosky and Marek 2003)
Three or more authors: (Lunin et al. 2006)

About the journal

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