How to format your references using the Mycorrhiza citation style

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

Zender L (2014) Cancer: interference identifies immune modulators. Nature 506:39–40

A journal article with 2 authors

Sosnick TR, Hinshaw JR (2011) Biochemistry. How proteins fold. Science 334:464–465

A journal article with 3 authors

Medina PP, Nolde M, Slack FJ (2010) OncomiR addiction in an in vivo model of microRNA-21-induced pre-B-cell lymphoma. Nature 467:86–90

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kim KJ, Lee S-W, Yim T, et al (2014) A new strategy for integrating abundant oxygen functional groups into carbon felt electrode for vanadium redox flow batteries. Sci Rep 4:6906

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maksoud MA (2017) Quick Reference to Dental Implant Surgery. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Li K, Li J, Liu Y, Castiglione A (eds) (2016) Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems: 7th International Symposium, ISICA 2015, Guangzhou, China, November 21-22, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, 1st ed. 2016. Springer, Singapore

A chapter in an edited book

Grace J (2016) The Amazon Carbon Balance: An Evaluation of Methods and Results. In: Nagy L, Forsberg BR, Artaxo P (eds) Interactions Between Biosphere, Atmosphere and Human Land Use in the Amazon Basin. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 79–100

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 Mycorrhiza.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Will Next-Generation Wearable Sensors Make Us Healthier? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/will-next-generation-wearable-sensors-make-us-healthier/. 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 (1989) Information Technology and Government Operations. 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

Bemmel EP (2008) A cost -effectiveness analysis of two community college baccalaureate programs in Florida: An exploratory study. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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

Sengupta S, Eddy M, Buckley C, Rubin AJ (2017) Defiant Other Countries Reaffirm Fight Against Climate Change. New York Times A11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zender 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Sosnick and Hinshaw 2011; Zender 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sosnick and Hinshaw 2011)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mycorrhiza
Abbreviation	Mycorrhiza
ISSN (print)	0940-6360
ISSN (online)	1432-1890
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science Genetics Molecular Biology General Medicine