How to format your references using the Mycology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mycology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Foley JA. 2005. AtmospheRIC science. Tipping points in the tundra. Science. 310(5748):627–628.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martincorena I, Campbell PJ. 2015. Somatic mutation in cancer and normal cells. Science. 349(6255):1483–1489.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nederbragt AJ, van Loon AE, Dictus WJAG. 2002. Evolutionary biology: hedgehog crosses the snail’s midline. Nature. 417(6891):811–812.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Pälike H, Norris RD, Herrle JO, Wilson PA, Coxall HK, Lear CH, Shackleton NJ, Tripati AK, Wade BS. 2006. The heartbeat of the Oligocene climate system. Science. 314(5807):1894–1898.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abdel-aleem S. 2010. The Design and Management of Medical Device clinical Trials. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Prasad SK, Routray S, Khurana R, Sahni S, editors. 2009. Information Systems, Technology and Management: Third International Conference, ICISTM 2009, Ghaziabad, India, March 12-13, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Snik F, Keller CU. 2013. Astronomical Polarimetry: Polarized Views of Stars and Planets. In: Oswalt TD, Bond HE, editors. Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems: Volume 2: Astronomical Techniques, Software, and Data. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; p. 175–221.

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 Mycology.

Blog post

Hale T. 2016. Elon Musk Has A 'Top Secret Tesla Masterplan” Coming This Week. 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. 2004. Aviation Security: Challenges Delay Implementation of Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System. 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

Sokolov CK. 2017. Teacher Engagement In Grades 4-8 [Doctoral dissertation]. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Oestreich JR. 2017. Brahms Wrote It for His Mother and His Friend Robert. New York Times.:C7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Foley 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Foley 2005; Martincorena and Campbell 2015).

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

Two authors: (Martincorena and Campbell 2015)
Three or more authors: (Pälike et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mycology
Abbreviation	Mycology
ISSN (print)	2150-1203
ISSN (online)	2150-1211
Scope	Plant Science Microbiology Infectious Diseases