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

Eisenstein M. 2015. Medical marijuana: Showdown at the cannabis corral. Nature. 525(7570):S15-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fyke J, Eby M. 2012. Comment on “Climate sensitivity estimated from temperature reconstructions of the Last Glacial Maximum.” Science. 337(6100):1294; author reply 1294.

A journal article with 3 authors

Appelbaum I, Huang B, Monsma DJ. 2007. Electronic measurement and control of spin transport in silicon. Nature. 447(7142):295–298.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Rozen S, Skaletsky H, Marszalek JD, Minx PJ, Cordum HS, Waterston RH, Wilson RK, Page DC. 2003. Abundant gene conversion between arms of palindromes in human and ape Y chromosomes. Nature. 423(6942):873–876.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coates M, Jenkins B. 2010. Electrical Installation Calculations: For Compliance with BS 7671:2008. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Damm W, Hermanns H, editors. 2007. Computer Aided Verification: 19th International Conference, CAV 2007, Berlin, Germany, July 3-7, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Saif H, He Y, Fernandez M, Alani H. 2014. Adapting Sentiment Lexicons Using Contextual Semantics for Sentiment Analysis of Twitter. In: Presutti V, Blomqvist E, Troncy R, Sack H, Papadakis I, Tordai A, editors. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2014 Satellite Events: ESWC 2014 Satellite Events, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 54–63.

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

Andrew D. 2016. 7 Terrible Health Tips From Gwyneth Paltrow. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/7-terrible-health-tips-from-gwyneth-paltrow/

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. 1990. Airline Deregulation: Trends in Airfares at Airports in Small and Medium-Sized Communities. 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

Garraway OL. 2008. A study of the relationship between corporate leaders’ beliefs and the firm’s strategic decisions [Doctoral dissertation]. Phoenix, AZ: 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

Kulish N, Clark N. 2015. Warning Signs in the Mind of a Pilot Determined to Die. New York Times.:A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenstein 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Fyke and Eby 2012; Eisenstein 2015).

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

Two authors: (Fyke and Eby 2012)
Three or more authors: (Rozen et al. 2003)

About the journal

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

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