How to format your references using the Mycological Progress citation style

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

Neuenschwander P (2004) Harnessing nature in Africa. Nature 432:801–802

A journal article with 2 authors

Percec I, Bartolomei MS (2002) Genetics. Do X chromosomes set boundaries? Science 295:287–288

A journal article with 3 authors

Chabre M, Cone R, Saibil H (2003) Biophysics: is rhodopsin dimeric in native retinal rods? Nature 426:30–1; discussion 31

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Javey A, Guo J, Wang Q, et al (2003) Ballistic carbon nanotube field-effect transistors. Nature 424:654–657

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kim H-G, Moreau N, Sikora T (2006) MPEG-7 Audio and Beyond. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Burckhardt P, Dawson-Hughes B, Weaver CM (eds) (2013) Nutritional Influences on Bone Health: 8th International Symposium. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Procesi C (2009) The spirit of algebra. In: Emmer M, Quarteroni A (eds) Mathknow: Mathematics, Applied Sciences and Real Life. Springer, Milano, pp 37–57

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 Mycological Progress.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) First North American Measles Death Since 2003. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1993) NASA Aeronautics: Protecting Sensitive Technology. 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

Manso PH (2017) Teacher Evaluation: A Qualitative Study on Growth-Producing Practices in K-8 Schools. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Williams J (2017) Stranger Than Reality? New York Times BR4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Neuenschwander 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Percec and Bartolomei 2002; Neuenschwander 2004).

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

Two authors: (Percec and Bartolomei 2002)
Three or more authors: (Javey et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mycological Progress
Abbreviation	Mycol. Prog.
ISSN (print)	1617-416X
ISSN (online)	1861-8952
Scope	Plant Science