How to format your references using the Mycorrhiza citation style

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

Alley RB (2007) Geochemistry. “C”ing Arctic climate with black ice. Science 317:1333–1334

A journal article with 2 authors

Lane J, Bertuzzi S (2011) Research funding. Measuring the results of science investments. Science 331:678–680

A journal article with 3 authors

Bauer P, Thorpe A, Brunet G (2015) The quiet revolution of numerical weather prediction. Nature 525:47–55

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tatar M, Kopelman A, Epstein D, et al (2001) A mutant Drosophila insulin receptor homolog that extends life-span and impairs neuroendocrine function. Science 292:107–110

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Korhonen J, Savolainen T, Soininen J (2013) Deploying IPv6 in 3GPP Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Chatterjee A (ed) (2013) Vaccinophobia and Vaccine Controversies of the 21st Century. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Keagle MB, Gersen SL (2013) Basic Cytogenetics Laboratory Procedures. In: Gersen SL, Keagle MB (eds) The Principles of Clinical Cytogenetics. Springer, New York, NY, pp 53–65

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 Mycorrhiza.

Blog post

Evans K (2017) Sorry Zookeepers, Chimps Don’t Care If You Play Them Music. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sorry-zookeepers-chimps-dont-care-if-you-play-them-music/. 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 (2009) Business Systems Modernization: Internal Revenue Service’s Fiscal Year 2009 Expenditure Plan. 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

Lapizco-Encinas GC (2009) Cooperative particle swarm optimization for combinatorial problems. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Johnson G (2015) A Cancer Cluster Is Tough to Prove. New York Times D3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alley 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Alley 2007; Lane and Bertuzzi 2011).

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

Two authors: (Lane and Bertuzzi 2011)
Three or more authors: (Tatar et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mycorrhiza
Abbreviation	Mycorrhiza
ISSN (print)	0940-6360
ISSN (online)	1432-1890
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science Genetics Molecular Biology General Medicine