How to format your references using the Mycoscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mycoscience. 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	Download the output style file
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

Kurchan, J. (2005). In and out of equilibrium. Nature, 433(7023), 222–225.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reddy, G. V., & Meyerowitz, E. M. (2005). Stem-cell homeostasis and growth dynamics can be uncoupled in the Arabidopsis shoot apex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5748), 663–667.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ohl, F. W., Scheich, H., & Freeman, W. J. (2001). Change in pattern of ongoing cortical activity with auditory category learning. Nature, 412(6848), 733–736.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Galloway, J. N., Townsend, A. R., Erisman, J. W., Bekunda, M., Cai, Z., Freney, J. R., Martinelli, L. A., Seitzinger, S. P., & Sutton, M. A. (2008). Transformation of the nitrogen cycle: recent trends, questions, and potential solutions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5878), 889–892.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, J., & Roberts, R. (2015). Vital Signs for Nurses. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Horie, Y. (Ed.). (2009). Shock Wave Science and Technology Reference Library, Vol. 3: Solids II. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Iida, M., Tsukamoto, C., & Yoshioka, A. (2013). Star Products and Certain Star Product Functions. In P. Kielanowski, S. T. Ali, A. Odesskii, A. Odzijewicz, M. Schlichenmaier, & T. Voronov (Eds.), Geometric Methods in Physics: XXXI Workshop, Białowieża, Poland, June 24–30, 2012 (pp. 39–45). Springer.

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 Mycoscience.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 10). Contender For Most Massive Dinosaur May Not Have Been So Hefty After All. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/contender-most-massive-dinosaur-may-not-have-been-so-hefty-after-all/

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. (1993). Airport Improvement Program: Allocation of Funds From 1982 to 1992 (RCED-94-14FS). 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

Hsieh, H.-C. (2010). Self-access center and autonomous learning: EFL college students’ motivations, activities and perceptions of learning effectiveness [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana 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

Stevenson, A., & Goldstein, M. (2016, June 22). Fund Manager Facing Charges Is Found Dead at Home. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kurchan, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Kurchan, 2005; Reddy & Meyerowitz, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Reddy & Meyerowitz, 2005)
Three authors: (Ohl et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Galloway et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mycoscience
ISSN (print)	1340-3540
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