How to format your references using the Mycology citation style

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

Fujita T. 2006. Virology. Sensing viral RNA amid your own. Science. 314(5801):935–936.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ostfeld RS, Keesing F. 2004. Ecology. Oh the locusts sang, then they dropped dead. Science. 306(5701):1488–1489.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kingon AI, Maria JP, Streiffer SK. 2000. Alternative dielectrics to silicon dioxide for memory and logic devices. Nature. 406(6799):1032–1038.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Gange AC, Gange EG, Sparks TH, Boddy L. 2007. Rapid and recent changes in fungal fruiting patterns. Science. 316(5821):71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Svensson H. 2011. Schrägkabelbrücken. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Longuski JM. 2014. Optimal Control with Aerospace Applications. Guzmán JJ, Prussing JE, editors. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chou CL, Bell J, Chou CM, Chang A. 2014. Remediation of Interpersonal and Communication Skills. In: Kalet A, Chou CL, editors. Remediation in Medical Education: A Mid-Course Correction. New York, NY: Springer; p. 55–66.

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 Mycology.

Blog post

Davis J. 2017. Researchers Find A Way To Reverse Drug Resistance In Tuberculosis. 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. 1978. Free Legal Services for the Poor: Increased Coordination, Community Legal Education, and Outreach Needed. 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

Konggidinata MI. 2017. Application and Modifications of Ordered Mesoporous Carbon (OMC) for BTEX Removal: Characterization, Adsorption Mechanisms, and Kinetic Studies [Doctoral dissertation]. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Crow K. 2003. Seeking to Preserve the Site Where a Famed Ancestor Traded. New York Times.:148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fujita 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Ostfeld and Keesing 2004; Fujita 2006).

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

Two authors: (Ostfeld and Keesing 2004)
Three or more authors: (Gange et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mycology
Abbreviation	Mycology
ISSN (print)	2150-1203
ISSN (online)	2150-1211
Scope	Plant Science Microbiology Infectious Diseases