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

Norman, M. (2004). Physics. Have cuprates earned their stripes? Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5666), 1985–1986.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kurita, R., & Tanaka, H. (2004). Critical-like phenomena associated with liquid-liquid transition in a molecular liquid. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5697), 845–848.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ko, H. W., Jiang, J., & Edery, I. (2002). Role for Slimb in the degradation of Drosophila Period protein phosphorylated by Doubletime. Nature, 420(6916), 673–678.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Adámkovics, M., Wong, M. H., Laver, C., & de Pater, I. (2007). Widespread morning drizzle on Titan. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5852), 962–965.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bosq, D., & Blanke, D. (2007). Inference and Prediction in Large Dimensions: Bosq/Inference and Prediction in Large Dimensions. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bose, P., Gąsieniec, L. A., Römer, K., & Wattenhofer, R. (Eds.). (2015). Algorithms for Sensor Systems: 11th International Symposium on Algorithms and Experiments for Wireless Sensor Networks, ALGOSENSORS 2015, Patras, Greece, September 17-18, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (1st ed. 2015, Vol. 9536). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Tonso, K. L. (2016). Enacting Practices. In U. Jørgensen & S. Brodersen (Eds.), Engineering Professionalism: Engineering Practices in Work and Education (pp. 85–103). SensePublishers.

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. (2014, December 12). Men Walk On Ice As Clear As Glass. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2014). Federal Retirement Processing: Applying Information Technology Acquisition Best Practices Could Help OPM Overcome a Long History of Unsuccessful Modernization Efforts (GAO-15-277T). 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

Tosti, C. L. (2009). Quantification of dispersed and aggregated iron in vivo by magnetic resonance imaging [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia 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

Saslow, L. (2006, January 1). Putting the Pan in Pan-American. New York Times, 14LI8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Norman, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Kurita & Tanaka, 2004; Norman, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Kurita & Tanaka, 2004)
Three authors: (Ko et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Adámkovics et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mycoscience
ISSN (print)	1340-3540
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