How to format your references using the The Korean Journal of Mycology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Korean Journal of Mycology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Bardeen C. Physics. Exciton quenching and migration in single conjugated polymers. Science 2011;331(6017):544–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Queller DC, Strassmann JE. The many selves of social insects. Science 2002;296(5566):311–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nowacki A, Wookey J, Kendall J-M. Deformation of the lowermost mantle from seismic anisotropy. Nature 2010;467(7319):1091–4.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Cheng H, Yao N, Huang Z-G, Park J, Do Y, Lai Y-C. Mesoscopic interactions and species coexistence in evolutionary game dynamics of cyclic competitions. Sci Rep 2014;4:7486.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gamenara D, Seoane GA, Saenz-Méndez P, de María PD. Redox Biocatalysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Vincent J-L, editor. Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2015. 1st edn. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. (Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2015; vol. 2015).

A chapter in an edited book

Ho Q-D, Gao Y, Rajalingham G, Le-Ngoc T. Performance and Feasibility of GPSR and RPL in NANs. In: Gao Y, Rajalingham G, Le-Ngoc T, editors. Wireless Communications Networks for the Smart Grid. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 71–97. (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science).

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 The Korean Journal of Mycology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Walking on Water: Easier Than It Sounds. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Motor Vehicle Safety: Passive Restraints Needed to Make Light Trucks Safer. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Nov. Report No.: RCED-90-56.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Scaramella J. Physical activity and red light foods consumed in ASPIRE-VA veterans [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Rothenberg I by B. Life on Tour With a Little One in Tow. New York Times 2016;B10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	The Korean Journal of Mycology
ISSN (print)	0253-651X
ISSN (online)	2383-5249
Scope