How to format your references using the Mycologia citation style

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

Smaglik P. 2005. Come together. Nature 434:252–253.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pokrovski GS, Dubrovinsky LS. 2011. The S3- ion is stable in geological fluids at elevated temperatures and pressures. Science (New York, NY) 331:1052–1054.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jones MH, Bewsher D, Brown DS. 2013. Imaging of a circumsolar dust ring near the orbit of Venus. Science (New York, NY) 342:960–963.

A journal article with 30 or more authors

Zhu Q, Sun Y, Zhu J, Fang T, Zhang W, Li J-X. 2014. Antinociceptive effects of sinomenine in a rat model of neuropathic pain. Scientific Reports 4:7270.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Armstrong RA, Hilton AC. 2010. Statistical Analysis in Microbiology: Statnotes. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Abuzinada AH, Barth H-J, Krupp F, Böer B, Abdessalaam TZA, eds. 2008. Protecting the Gulf’s Marine Ecosystems from Pollution. Basel: Birkhäuser. XVI, 285 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Kuzmanić I, Vujović I. 2015. Analyzing and Modeling Reliability and Availability of the Quality Control System. In: I. Vujović, ed. Reliability and Availability of Quality Control Based on Wavelet Computer Vision. Cham: Springer International Publishing. p. 17–39.

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 Mycologia.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. What Happens When You Throw Liquid Nitrogen and Dry Ice in a Pool? IFLScience.

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. 1991. B-2 Bomber: Early Radar Signature Tests. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sonn AC. 2009. Institutions’ needs and donors’ dreams: A case study of successful student affairs fundraising collaboration at three private research universities. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University.

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

Dominus S. 2016. Leaving Carrie Behind. New York Times AR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2005; Pokrovski and Dubrovinsky 2011).

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

Two authors: (Pokrovski and Dubrovinsky 2011)
Three or more authors: (Zhu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mycologia
Abbreviation	Mycologia
ISSN (print)	0027-5514
ISSN (online)	1557-2536
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science Cell Biology Genetics Molecular Biology Physiology General Medicine