A General View
Article Processing Charge (APC): Mycologia Iranica (Mycol. Iran.) offers free publishing with no Article Processing Charges (APC) for all authors.
Basic Types of Publications
(1) Original articles: Reporting original research that makes a significant contribution to the field of mycology.
(2) Short articles: The editorial board reserves the right to publish research articles with limited findings and printed pages of approximately 5-6 pages as short articles. The short article format should be similar to regular articles, except that no secondary headings are used.
(3) Short reports: Reports concerning genera and species, new hosts, and similar subjects with limited findings and identification procedures published as short reports. Short reports must not exceed 3 manuscript pages (plus 1 table or 1 illustration).
(4) Review articles: substantial and in-depth discussions on topics of interest to a wide range of mycologists.
(5) Data Analysis and Checklist: In this type of article researchers with the ability to analyze or collect a set of data available in databases, and papers in the fields of taxonomy, ecology, biology, host range, and related areas can prepare an article and submit it to the journal for review.
(6) In addition to the above-mentioned article types, the following types of papers will be considered for publication in Mycologia Iranica as short communications.
-New Methods, Insights, and Viewpoints is a new section of our journal that highlights innovative approaches and fresh perspectives in the field of Mycology. This section aims to introduce new techniques with the shortest possible publication time, making them readily available to researchers. Additionally, it presents perspectives that stimulate or challenge intellectual discourse. We encourage authors to contact and consult the editor-in-chief before submission.
All manuscripts are initially reviewed by the editor-in-chief to ensure they meet the general acceptance criteria and comply with the journal's format. They are then forwarded to the editorial board, which provides an overall assessment and may suggest one or more reviewers. After receiving feedback, the editor-in-chief assigns the manuscript to at least two expert reviewers. Regular articles are published in order of acceptance and must not have been submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. If authors submit corrections within the given time frame, we aim to complete the review process within a maximum of two months. For new findings, novel methods, or cases requiring expedited review due to special circumstances, we strive to complete the process much faster with our professional editorial board and reviewers. In such cases, authors can expect a first decision approximately 15-20 days after submission.
Quick Guide for Authors
1. All papers must be submitted electronically to https://mij.areeo.ac.ir, as a Microsoft Word file (.doc, .docx, Times New Roman, 10 pt).
2. Title Page
A title page is required when submitting your manuscript and must be separate from the main manuscript before submission. The title page should include the following information:
-Manuscript title.
-Author names. Indicate the first name and family name of each author (in full, do not abbreviate).
-The affiliation(s): Provide the authors' affiliation addresses below their names. Each address should include the Department(s)/subunit(s), institution, city, state/region, and country. For unaffiliated authors, only the city and country of residence, along with an email address, will be required.
-Authors' e-mails: A valid and active email address should be provided for each author.
-ORCID ID: Provide an ORCID ID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) for each author. If you do not yet have an ORCID ID, please visit https://orcid.org/ and register for free.
-Acknowledgments
-Author contribution
-Funding
-Data availability
-Declarations
Since the article review process is double-blind, these sections are initially included on the title page by the author. In the final version, they are moved to the end of the article (just before the references section) by the author or page designer.
3. A full-text manuscript (without author names and affiliations) including tables (with titles) and figures (with legends) embedded in the appropriate places within the text is required. If the image file size is too large at this stage, authors can use low-resolution images within the text.
In addition to embedding all types of Illustrations in the main text [line drawings (600 dpi or higher) and half-tone pictures (300 dpi or higher)] it is also necessary to submit them separately in .tiff format. Phylogenetic trees are only accepted when submitted as PowerPoint files or in .tiff format.
Ensure that tables are clear and concise by removing unnecessary vertical and horizontal lines.
4. The content should be structured as follows: ABSTRACT (up to 250 words), INTRODUCTION, MATERIALS AND METHODS, RESULTS, DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION (optional) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT(S), CONFLICT OF INTEREST, and REFERENCES. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION can be merged.
KEYWORDS (Five keywords and not be included in the title) and Running title should also be provided.
5. A neatly typed clean copy is required. The text should be in single-column format. Use line-number guides (left margin) in the original version. Leave a 2 cm margin on all sides. All texts must be justified. Remove all extra vertical spaces above or below titles, headings, or paragraphs. Do not format additional space between paragraphs or sections; these will be produced by typesetting codes in the press.
6. Papers are published in English with an abstract in Persian (the Editorial board prepares a Persian abstract for each manuscript received from non-Iranian authors based on the English abstract). English spelling is required and should follow The Cobuild English Dictionary (Harper Collins Publishers, London), and the conventions of American English. This implies that spellings should align with the American standard, such as "color" instead of "colour" or "organize" instead of "organise.", etc.
7. Words of non-English origin, such as bona fide, prima facie, in vitro, and in situ, should be placed in italics, together with scientific names at all ranks. The term et al. is written in plain text, even though it is derived from Latin.
8. References in the text should be first chronological, then alphabetically and given in the following form:“Smith and Jones (1965) have shown ...”, or, “some authors (Zabetta 1928, Taylor and Palmer 1970, Zabetta 1970). Where there are three or more authors, names should be cited by the first name only, adding “et al.” for example: “Bowie, Black and White (1964)” are given as “Bowie et al. (1964)” or “(Bowie et al. 1964)”. Where authors have published more than one work in a year, to which reference is made, they should be distinguished by placing a, b, etc. immediately after the date (for example, “Dylan (1965a, b).” Reference citations in the text should be in ascending order of year first, followed by author names.
-For Web references, as a minimum, the full URL should be given, and the date when the reference was last accessed (www. mycobank. org., accessed 20 May 2024). Any further information should also be provided if known (DOI, author names, date, reference to a source publication, etc.). Web references are included in the reference list.
In the References section, citations are strictly alphabetical, with papers having the same authors arranged according to date. Each reference should include the full title of the paper and journal, the volume number, and the first and last page numbers according to the following format. In the case of book chapters, the names of editors, first and last page numbers of the articles, publisher, and place of publication are required. References should be organized according to the following rules: (a) For one author, by name of the author, then chronologically; (b) For two authors, by name of the author, then the name of coauthor, then chronologically; (c) For more than two authors, by name of the first author, then chronologically. It is possible to use citation managers like EndNote, Mendeley, and others that support the following format. This is a modified form of the Vancouver format in which the publication date is moved after the authors' names.
Examples:
Abdollahzadeh J, Zare R, Phillips AJ. 2013. Phylogeny and taxonomy of Botryosphaeria and Neofusicoccum species in Iran, with description of Botryosphaeria scharifii sp. nov. Mycologia. 105(1): 210‑220. https://doi,org.10.3852/12-107. (include DOI when available). A hyphen (-) should be used between the first and last page number as shown in the above example: 210-220).
Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Mikhailov KV, Péter G, Aptroot A, ... et al. 2024. Classes and phyla of the kingdom Fungi. Fungal Diversity. 1-165. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-024-00540-z. (For articles with more than five authors).
White TJ, Bruns TD, Lee S, Taylor J. 1990. Article title. In: Book title. (Innis MA, Gelfand JJ, Sninsky DH and White TJ, eds): 11-30. Press, Country. (For Book chapter). Full Example:
White TJ, Bruns TD, Lee S, Taylor J. 1990. Amplification and direct sequencing of fungal ribosomal RNA genes for phylogenetics. In: PCR protocols: a guide to methods and applications. (Innis MA, Gelfand JJ, Sninsky DH and White TJ, eds): 315-322. Academic Press, USA.
Simpson H, Seifert KA. 2000. Book title. 2nd ed. Press, Country. (For the book).
White DA. 2001. Dissertation title. PhD (MSc.) thesis, Department, University, Country. (For Thesis and Dissertation).
Banihashemi Z, Zakeri A. 1989. Identification of cucurbit powdery mildew in Fars by its asexual stage. Proceeding of 9th Iranian Plant Protection Congress; Mashhad, Iran: p. 86. (For conference Paper).
Robert V, Stegehuis G, Stalpers J. 2005. The MycoBank engine and related databases. Available online at: www. mycobank. org. (accessed May 2024).
Do not include personal communication, unpublished data, manuscripts, or partial page numbers from books and theses; place such references in the text.
Please note that: Hanging― 0.5 Centimeter― is required
Manuscripts must have been accepted for publication before they may be cited (in press). A copy of the acceptance letter and the article's full text should be provided to the referees upon request.
9. Cover Letter
A cover letter should be included with the submission, briefly outlining the significance of the work, highlighting any key findings, and confirming that the manuscript is original, has not been published elsewhere, and is not under consideration for publication by another journal.
10. To view the general structure of the recent articles published in MI, please refer to the article by
by Ghaderi and Abdollahzadeh in Volume 12, Issue 1, pages 21-42.
A review of the checklist:
More Guidelines for Structuring and Writing Your Paper
1. Submission of a manuscript indicates that the authors have neither previously published nor are simultaneously submitting substantially the same material elsewhere. The corresponding author should confirm that: (a) all named authors have agreed to publish the work and (b) the manuscript does not infringe any personal or other copyright or property rights.
2. Common abbreviations are as follows: h, min, s, mL, µL, mg/L, °C, Fig., d, and wk, as well as ITS, ITS-rDNA, RAPD, RFLP, rDNA, and 18S rDNA. Authorities of fungal taxa should be omitted from the general text unless novelties and synonymies are listed or nomenclatural issues are discussed. In these cases, authorities for taxa should follow the list of authors’ names, see http://www.speciesfungorum.org/AuthorsOfFun galNames.htm.
3. Experimental procedures must be reproducible and must follow Good Cultural Practice (Mycological Research 106:1378–1379), with sequences deposited in GenBank, voucher specimens in IRAN, or another internationally recognized online herbarium (Index Herbariorum or World Directory of Collections and Cultures of Microorganisms acronym, with accession numbers where allocated, and accompanying ex-type and other cultures in Iran and other culture collections. All new taxa or names should include citations of the identifier issued for the name by a recognized repository such as Fungal Names, Index Fungorum, and MycoBank.
4. Collections must be cited as Specimen(s) examined: Country, location, substratum, date (e.g., December 10, 1993), collector (for example A. Jones and M. Rahimi), HERBARIUM number (acronym according to the Index Herbariorum), holotype (Example: IRAN 2043 F), ex-type culture (IRAN 4983 C); ex-type sequence: ITS-rDNA = MG906806, TEF1 = MG963903.
As shown in the example, if nucleic acid or amino acid sequences are used, a GenBank accession number for primary nucleotide and/or amino acid sequence data must be included in the manuscript.
5. Use ‘–’ (en-dash) for the minus sign and all kinds of ranges, not an ordinary hyphen. e.g. 4–5 × 7–10 µm, Figs 1–3; NOT 4-5 × 7-10 µm. Use × (not x) to show measurements.
If similarity to another genus is expressed, use e.g. leptosphaeria-like and acremonium-like; in ‘acremonium-like’ and similar expressions the generic name is degraded to a technical descriptive term, which may be acceptable for well-known anamorphic genera.
6. The use of a color chart is recommended to rate colors.
7. Type of space in front of all the units (such as 25 °C). Do not use it for 100%. (Not 100 %).
8. When two bracket systems are required, round brackets are always used ( ( ) ).
9. Quotes: Normal quotes between single inverted commas, ‘xxx’; double inverted commas “xxx” may be required for quotations inside another quote or for some deviating expressions, such as an original spelling that has been corrected.
10. Use ‘:’ in cases such as:
Cultural characteristics:
Substratum:
Distribution:
Specimens examined: South Africa, Western Cape Province, Stellenbosch, on pods of Prosopis glandulosa, September 24, 2001, S.T. Lennox, holotype Herb. CBS 7948, culture ex-type CBS 113529; Somerset West .... Zambia,
Give alphabetic sequences to countries all over the world. A semicolon (;) was used for all specimens originating from one country. Months are abbreviated to three letters with a period, except for May, June, July, and Sept.
11. When a lectotype, neotype or epitype is designated in the present paper, this must be stated (‘designated here’), in newly described taxa this formulation is not needed (Art. 7.11 ICBN does say this, but in a hidden way, by reference to Arts 9.17 and 10.5).
Ex-type cultures CBS XXX (note hyphens in ex-type and space between CBS and number).
12. Figure and Table numbers in Arabic type: Use Fig. 1 or Figs 1–3 (not Plate).
Use uppercase for different parts of figures.
Use a stop at the end of the figure caption. Such as:
Fig. 6. Penicillium dipodomyus: (A) Colonies, (B–E) Conidiophores, (F) Conidia. Scale bars: B = 20 μm, C–F = 10 μm.
13. In all sentences, beginning with a Latin generic name, this name should be given in full. Do not start paragraphs or sentences with abbreviations if this can be helped. Blumeria graminis is a super pathogen. NOT: B. graminis is a super pathogen.
14. In taxonomic papers, Identification Keys should be in the following format (Hanging― 0.5 Centimeter― is required):
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Key to species of Neosetophoma |
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1a. Fruiting bodies absent |
2 |
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1b. Fruiting bodies present |
3 |
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2a. Colonies fluffy, with dense green spots in the center, hyphae 2–4.5 μm wide |
N. endophyticum |
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2b. Colonies fluffy, later flocculent, hyphae 1.5–3.5 μm wide |
N. polygonata |
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3a. Sexual morph determined; coelomycetous asexual morph rarely present |
4 |
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3b. Sexual morph undetermined; coelomycetous asexual morph always present |
N. buxi |
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4a. Ascomata more than 250 µm high |
N. camporesii |
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4b. Ascomata less than 250 µm high |
N. trachycarpi |
15. The new taxa, combinations, etc. appear as the following example:
Nemania hyrcana Pourmoghaddam, Voglmayr & A. Khodap., sp. nov.; Fig. 2, 3.
MycoBank: 845436
Holotype: Iran, Guilan Province, Astara County, Darband Forest, 38 21'26"N, 48 50'19"E, 17 m elev., on a fallen branch of Parrotia persica, 7 October 2017, M.J. Pourmoghaddam (GUM 1628; living culture MUCL 57704). Geographical coordinates, i.e., longitude and latitude, are not mandatory.
Etymology: refers to the study of the origin and historical development of the names of taxa (e.g., species, genera, families). In the above-mentioned example, the epithet is derived from “Hyrcania”, an ancient biogeographical region, located in the south of the Caspian Sea where the specimens were collected.
Basionym: (if available)
Synonyms:
= Nemania adusta Thüm., Mycoth. Univ. Cent. 20, No. 1939, 1881. (Use = and ≡ for facultative and obligate synonyms respectively).
16. New taxa for a country or region appear as the following example:
Tremateia chromolaenae Mapook & K.D. Hyde, Fungal Diversity 101: 40 (2020).
17. Submit the names, addresses, and e-mail addresses of up to three potential referees. The handling editor retains the sole right to decide whether the suggested reviewers are used.
18. Supplementary information
Authors can submit supplementary data (e.g., additional figures, tables, datasets, or multimedia files) that support the main results of the article. All supplementary materials should be submitted in a format consistent with the journal's guidelines, labeled, and referenced in the main text. These materials will be published online separately from the main article file.
19. Authorship issues or Disagreements
If authors disagree during peer review, after acceptance, or publication, the journal cannot investigate or adjudicate to find a solution. Authors will be asked to resolve the problems themselves. If they cannot resolve the dispute, the Journal reserves the right to withdraw a manuscript from the editorial process or, in the case of a finally published paper, raise the issue with the authors’ institution(s) and follow its guidelines.
20. Confidentiality
Authors should keep all communication with the Journal confidential including correspondence with Editors-in-Chief, section Editors, and reviewers’ reports.
21. Author's contributions
The Mycologia Iranica requires all authors to accept responsibility for the contents of the manuscript submitted to the Journal. The contributions of each author must be described.
Example:
Hasan Alizadeh, Ali Naeimi, and Mina Alavi planned and supervised the work; Hasan Alizadeh prepared the first manuscript draft; Mona Takrimi and Reza Azizi performed DNA sequencing; Mina Alavi provided the drawings; Hasan Alizadeh performed the phylogenetic analysis; and Kivan Razavi provided a few powdery mildew specimens. All authors reviewed the manuscript and commented on the manuscript.
22. Funding
We asked the authors to declare the research grants or any support by agencies or organizations that may gain or lose financially through the publication of this manuscript. (The funder or organization name and the grant number are required).
Example 1:
This work was supported by a grant from the Iranian National Science Foundation (no. 1925) to MJ Pourmoghaddam and a research grant from the Deputy of Research and Technology of the University of Guilan (No. 9793) to S.A. Khodaparast.
Example 2: The authors declare that no financial support was received during this research.
Example 3: This study was financially supported by the University of Kurdistan. O. Ghaderi was financially supported by the ″Iranian Mycological Society″.
23. Data Availability
All datasets on which the paper has been written should be available to the Editor-in-Chief, reviewers, and readers. We encourage authors to ensure that their datasets are either deposited in publicly available repositories (where available and appropriate such as GenBank) or presented in the main manuscript or additional supplementary uploaded during submission. The authors should provide a statement of Data availability in their article.
Example 1: All datasets generated during this study are available from the corresponding author upon request.
Example 2: Alignments were deposited in TreeBASE (http://www.treebase.org/) under the accession number S27030.
Example 3: All data are available in online repositories. The names of the repository/repositories and accession number(s) can be found in the article. Requests for more data and materials should be addressed to the corresponding author(s).
24. Compliance with Ethical Standards
To ensure transparency in research and to follow the accepted principles of ethical and professional conduct, authors should include information regarding sources of funding, potential conflicts of interest (financial or non-financial), informed consent if the research involved human participants, and a statement on the welfare of animals if the research involved animals. Therefore, the authors should include the following statements (when applicable) and place them in a “Declarations” section. The corresponding author is responsible for collecting documentation of compliance with ethical standards and sending it if requested.
Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest
Ethics Approval and Consent
Example Statements:
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
There are no financial or personal relationships that could influence the work reported in this paper.
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
Ethics Approval
Example 1: This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.
Example 2: All experiments involving animals were conducted in compliance with ethical guidelines for animal research and approved by the relevant institutional ethics committee.
Example 3: Ethics approval: Not applicable
Example 4: Consent to participate: Not applicable.
25. Use of Artificial intelligence (AI)
In all cases, there must be human accountability for the preparation of the submitted text to the Journal. However, the use of AI tools for "AI-assisted language editing" purposes does not need to be declared. For details please see publication ethics in the Journal Info.
26. Submission Procedure
Submission of manuscripts to this journal is possible only through the online submission module.
Registration and login are required to submit items online and check current submissions' status.
The corresponding author must register and then log in to use the MI Manuscript Central submission system. The manuscript submission process is straightforward and user-friendly.
Please follow the steps below to submit your manuscript:
-Launch your web and go to the journal's online submission site: https://mij.areeo.ac.ir/
-Log in or, if you are a new user, click on "register".
Once logged in, you will find the online submission system by clicking the "Submit new manuscript" button.
- Please enter data, answer questions on the request of the journal site, upload your files and click the "Next" button on each screen to save your work and advance to the next step.
- Review your submission before completing your submission by sending it to the Journal. Click the "Finish Submission" button when you are finished reviewing.
Please enter all authors' names and affiliations on the site exactly as you wish to appear in the article (First name in full).
After acceptance and final revision by the author, all articles are published as proofread versions on the journal's website under the "In Press" section. They will then be organized sequentially for publication in upcoming journal issues.
Note: Whenever you have a problem or need our help, feel free to contact the editor-in-chief at:
S.A. Khodaparast, Editor-in-Chief
Department of Plant Protection
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
University of Guilan
Rasht, Iran
Email: khodaparast@guilan.ac.ir, Blumeria2015@gmail.com