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

Aldiss BW (2001) Desperately seeking aliens. Nature 409:1080–1082

A journal article with 2 authors

Gottlieb RA, Bernstein D (2015) METABOLISM. Mitochondria shape cardiac metabolism. Science 350:1162–1163

A journal article with 3 authors

Balazs AC, Emrick T, Russell TP (2006) Nanoparticle polymer composites: where two small worlds meet. Science 314:1107–1110

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Turnbaugh PJ, Ley RE, Mahowald MA, et al (2006) An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest. Nature 444:1027–1031

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murphy DB, Davidson MW (2012) Fundamentals of Light Microscopy and Electronic Imaging. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kim T-H, Adeli H, Grosky WI, et al (eds) (2011) Multimedia, Computer Graphics and Broadcasting: International Conference, MulGraB 2011, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2011, in Conjunction with GDC 2011, Jeju Island, Korea, December 8-10, 2011. Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Vinel A, Artières T (2013) Maximizing Edit Distance Accuracy with Hidden Conditional Random Fields. In: Wilson R, Hancock E, Bors A, Smith W (eds) Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns: 15th International Conference, CAIP 2013, York, UK, August 27-29, 2013, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 45–53

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

Fang J (2015) Eye-Catching Iridescence is an Anti-Predator Defense. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/eye-catching-iridescence-anti-predator-defense/. 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 (1981) Automatic Data Processing Problems at the Social Security Administration. 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

Al Hashimi H (2017) Local Measurement and Characterization via Fluorescing Materials for Phase Change Heat Transfer Applications. 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

Stewart JB (2017) Struggling to Find the Spirit of ’86. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aldiss 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Aldiss 2001; Gottlieb and Bernstein 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gottlieb and Bernstein 2015)
Three or more authors: (Turnbaugh et al. 2006)

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

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