How to format your references using the Fungal Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fungal Biology. 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 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

Trenberth, K.E., 2002. Changes in tropical clouds and radiation. Science 296, 2095.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blackburn, E.H., Epel, E.S., 2012. Telomeres and adversity: Too toxic to ignore. Nature 490, 169–171.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gebelein, B., McKay, D.J., Mann, R.S., 2004. Direct integration of Hox and segmentation gene inputs during Drosophila development. Nature 431, 653–659.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ren, M., Yoshimura, Y., Takada, N., Horibe, S., Komatsu, Y., 2007. Specialized inhibitory synaptic actions between nearby neocortical pyramidal neurons. Science 316, 758–761.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

AIChE Equipment Testing Procedure, 1987. Tray Distillation Columns. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Harris, D. (Ed.), 2009. Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics: 8th International Conference, EPCE 2009, Held as Part of HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA, USA, July 19-24, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Geist, A., 2008. MPI Must Evolve or Die, in: Lastovetsky, A., Kechadi, T., Dongarra, J. (Eds.), Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface: 15th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, Dublin, Ireland, September 7-10, 2008. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 5–5.

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 Fungal Biology.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2017. Sea Otters May Have Been Using Tools Before Modern Humans Even Existed [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1978. New Ways of Preparing Data for Computers Could Save Money and Time and Reduce Errors (No. FGMSD-78-39). 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

Best, M.L., 2013. Assistant Principals and Reform: A Socialization Paradox? (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Hodgman, J., 2016. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Trenberth, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Blackburn and Epel, 2012; Trenberth, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Blackburn and Epel, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Ren et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fungal Biology
Abbreviation	Fungal Biol.
ISSN (print)	1878-6146
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science Genetics Infectious Diseases