How to format your references using the MycoKeys citation style

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

Raichle ME (2006) Neuroscience. The brain’s dark energy. Science (New York, N.Y.) 314: 1249–1250.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li D, Agha L (2015) Research funding. Big names or big ideas: do peer-review panels select the best science proposals? Science (New York, N.Y.) 348: 434–438.

A journal article with 3 authors

Poulsen CJ, Ehlers TA, Insel N (2010) Onset of convective rainfall during gradual late Miocene rise of the central Andes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 328: 490–493.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Thaiss CA, Levy M, Grosheva I, Zheng D, Soffer E, Blacher E, Braverman S, Tengeler AC, Barak O, Elazar M, Ben-Zeev R, Lehavi-Regev D, Katz MN, Pevsner-Fischer M, Gertler A, Halpern Z, Harmelin A, Aamar S, Serradas P, Grosfeld A, Shapiro H, Geiger B, Elinav E (2018) Hyperglycemia drives intestinal barrier dysfunction and risk for enteric infection. Science (New York, N.Y.) 359: 1376–1383.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Angueira P, Romo JA (2012) Microwave Line of Sight Link Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Dorsman A, Westerman W, Simpson JL (Eds) (2015) Energy Technology and Valuation Issues. Springer International Publishing, Cham, X, 229 p. 39 illus., 2 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Carnio S, Bironzo P, Novello S, Scagliotti GV (2015) How to Personalize Perioperative Chemotherapy in Early Non-small Cell Lung Cancer? In: Peters S, Besse B (Eds), New Therapeutic Strategies in Lung Cancers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 49–66.

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 MycoKeys.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) New Species of Cat Discovered in South America. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-cat-discovered-south-america/ (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

Government Accountability Office (2012) Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations: Federal Coordination Efforts Could Be Further Strengthened. 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

Lutchman C (2008) Leadership impact on turnover among power engineers in the Oil Sands of Alberta. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix

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

Wagner J (2017) Future Is Now for Mets Prospect Rosario. New York Times: B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Raichle 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Raichle 2006, Li and Agha 2015).

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

Two authors: (Li and Agha 2015)
Three or more authors: (Thaiss et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	MycoKeys
ISSN (print)	1314-4057
ISSN (online)	1314-4049
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