How to format your references using the Mycobiology citation style

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

[1]

Bell J. Planetary science. Tip of the Martian iceberg? Science. 2002;297:60–61.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Strausberg RL, Schreiber SL. From knowing to controlling: a path from genomics to drugs using small molecule probes. Science. 2003;300:294–295.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sezen UU, Chazdon RL, Holsinger KE. Genetic consequences of tropical second-growth forest regeneration. Science. 2005;307:891.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zeff BW, Kleber B, Fineberg J, Lathrop DP. Singularity dynamics in curvature collapse and jet eruption on a fluid surface. Nature. 2000;403:401–404.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Aubry J-F, Brinzei N, Mazouni M-H. Systems Dependability Assessment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Xiang Y, Stojmenovic I, Apduhan BO, Wang G, Nakano K, Zomaya A, editors. Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing: 12th International Conference, ICA3PP 2012, Fukuoka, Japan, September 4-7, 2012, Proceedings, Part II. vol. 7440. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bender W, Böger HH. A Short History of the Extruder in Ceramics. In: Händle F, editor. Extrusion in Ceramics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 85–128.

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 Mycobiology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Origins Of Mysterious “Sprite” Lightning Discovered. IFLScience. 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/origins-mysterious-sprite-lightning-discovered/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Aviation Safety: Information on the Safety Effects of Modifying the Age Standard for Commercial Pilots. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Best TF. Evaluation of effectiveness, reproducibility, and repeatability of using dentition for estimating cattle age. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University, 2014.

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

[1]

Murphy MJO. Friday File. New York Times. 2015:C26.

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	Mycobiology
ISSN (print)	1229-8093
ISSN (online)	2092-9323
Scope