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

Sambles, J. R. (2015). Optics. Structured photons take it slow. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6224), 828.

A journal article with 2 authors

Friend, S. H., & Schadt, E. E. (2014). Translational genomics. Clues from the resilient. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6187), 970–972.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith, Z. M., Delgutte, B., & Oxenham, A. J. (2002). Chimaeric sounds reveal dichotomies in auditory perception. Nature, 416(6876), 87–90.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Morisset, S., Rouleau, A., Ligneau, X., Gbahou, F., Tardivel-Lacombe, J., Stark, H., Schunack, W., Ganellin, C. R., Schwartz, J. C., & Arrang, J. M. (2000). High constitutive activity of native H3 receptors regulates histamine neurons in brain. Nature, 408(6814), 860–864.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cochetti, R. (2014). Mobile Satellite Communications Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Henein, M. Y. (Ed.). (2012). Clinical Echocardiography (2nd ed. 2012). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sheng, Y., Welling, W. S., & Zhu, M. M. (2015). GPU-Accelerated Computing with Gibbs Sampler for the 2PNO IRT Model. In L. A. van der Ark, D. M. Bolt, W.-C. Wang, J. A. Douglas, & S.-M. Chow (Eds.), Quantitative Psychology Research: The 79th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Madison, Wisconsin, 2014 (pp. 59–73). Springer International Publishing.

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

Fang, J. (2015, October 21). Could Tooth Regeneration Be Possible In Humans One Day? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/teeth-and-taste-buds-came-same-precursor-tissue/

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. (1988). Financial Markets: Status of Computer Improvements at the New York Stock Exchange (IMTEC-88-35). 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

Mehmeti, A. (2010). Intensive dramaturgical research facilitated the creation of the character Soran Saleen in “The Poetry of Pizza” [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

Shear, M. D., & Haberman, M. (2017, August 17). Volume Rising In Nativist Talk From President. 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 (Sambles, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Friend & Schadt, 2014; Sambles, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Friend & Schadt, 2014)
Three authors: (Smith et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Morisset et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mycoscience
ISSN (print)	1340-3540
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