How to format your references using the International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms (IJM). 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

Amos LA. Biochemistry. Pressing levers or pulling strings? Science. 2008 Dec 12;322(5908):1647–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Voesenek LACJ, Pierik R. Plant science. Plant stress profiles. Science. 2008 May 16;320(5878):880–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tatano Y, Shimizu T, Tomioka H. Unique macrophages different from M1/M2 macrophages inhibit T cell mitogenesis while upregulating Th17 polarization. Sci Rep. 2014 Feb 20;4:4146.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Houlahan JE, Findlay CS, Schmidt BR, Meyer AH, Kuzmin SL. Quantitative evidence for global amphibian population declines. Nature. 2000 Apr 13;404(6779):752–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sigrist JF. Fluid-Structure Interaction. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Li Z. Intelligent Networked Teleoperation Control. Xia Y, Su CY, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. XII, 282 p. 95 illus., 89 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Frederico E, Parente JG. Determinants of Relationship Continuity between Fashion Retailers and Suppliers in Brazil. In: Swoboda B, Morschett D, Rudolph T, Schnedlitz P, Schramm-Klein H, editors. European Retail Research. Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag; 2009. p. 87–115. (European Retail Research).

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 International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Common Science Myths That Most People Believe. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/common-science-myths-most-people-believe/

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. National Assessment of Educational Progress: Its Results Need To Be Made More Useful. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976 Jul. Report No.: HRD-76-113.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bhavsar KS. Application of wavelet on quasi-periodic physiologic signals [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Collins-Hughes L. The God of Wine’s Grand Plan in the Garden State. New York Times. 2017 Feb 6;C2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms
ISSN (print)	1521-9437
ISSN (online)	1940-4344
Scope