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

Adkins J (2001) Paleoclimate. Dating--vive la différence. Science 294:1844–1845

A journal article with 2 authors

Lewinsohn TM, Cagnolo L (2012) Ecology. Keystones in a tangled bank. Science 335:1449–1451

A journal article with 3 authors

Costello MJ, May RM, Stork NE (2013) Can we name Earth’s species before they go extinct? Science 339:413–416

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Onoa B, Dumont S, Liphardt J, et al (2003) Identifying kinetic barriers to mechanical unfolding of the T. thermophila ribozyme. Science 299:1892–1895

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blair R (2011) Organic Production and Food Quality. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Hodicky J (ed) (2015) Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems: Second International Workshop, MESAS 2015, Prague, Czech Republic, April 29-30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Yuan W, Hu L, Cheng X, et al (2012) Improvement of an ID-Based Threshold Signcryption Scheme. In: He X, Hua E, Lin Y, Liu X (eds) Computer, Informatics, Cybernetics and Applications: Proceedings of the CICA 2011. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 29–35

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

Hale T (2016) Newspaper Gives “Scientific” Tips On How To Conceive Boys – Here’s The Actual Science Behind That Claim. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/newspaper-gives-scientific-tips-on-how-to-conceive-boys-heres-the-actual-science-behind-that-claim/. 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 (2004) Information Technology Management: Governmentwide Strategic Planning, Performance Measurement, and Investment Management Can Be Further Improved. 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

Mayorga J (2009) MSW students’ perception of mental health competence. 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

Crow K (2002) Old Wish List: More for Pupils; New List: Keep What We Have. New York Times 146

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Adkins 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Adkins 2001; Lewinsohn and Cagnolo 2012).

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

Two authors: (Lewinsohn and Cagnolo 2012)
Three or more authors: (Onoa et al. 2003)

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