A General View
Aims and Scopes: Mycologia Iranica (ISSN 2382-9656) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, full-color, fast-track research journal of the Iranian Mycological Society. The journal publishes original contributions in all fields of basic and applied research involving fungi and fungus-like organisms (including filamentous fungi, yeasts, lichen fungi, symbiont fungi, mycorrhiza, Oomycetes, and slime molds) in agriculture, forest, industry, food industry, and soil biology. Priority is given to contributions likely to be of interest to a wide international audience. Publication in Mycologia Iranica is open to both members and non-members of the Iranian Mycological Society. The journal is published electronically and in hard copy twice per year (June and December).
Page Charge
This journal has no page charge.
Types of Papers
Papers appropriate for the journal are:
(1) Research articles reporting original research which makes a significant contribution to 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: New genera and new species, new hosts, and similar subjects published as short reports. Short reports must not exceed 3 manuscript pages (plus 1 table or 1 illustration).
(4) The following types of papers will be considered and published solely at the discretion of the editorial team. We encourage authors to contact and consult the editor-in-chief before submission:
-Review articles: by invitation, substantial and in-depth on topics of interest to a wide range of mycologists.
-Data Analysis and Checklist: In this type of article researchers who have the ability to analyze or collect a set of data available in databases, papers in the fields of taxonomy, ecology, biology, host range, etc. can prepare an article in these fields and submit it to the journal for review.
All manuscripts are subject to peer review and copy editing. Regular articles will be published in order of acceptance. They must not have been submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. If authors make corrections within the given time frame, we will try to complete the review process within 2 months at the most. If researchers are in special circumstances and need a response in a shorter time frame, we will try to complete the review process in a much shorter time frame with our team of professional reviewers.
Use of AI (Artificial intelligence)
In all cases, there must be human accountability for the preparation of the final submitted text to the Journal. However, the use of an AI-tools for "AI-assisted language editing" purposes does not need to be declared.
Quick Guide for Authors
1. All papers must be submitted electronically to https://mij.areeo.ac.ir, as a Microsoft Word file (.docx, Times new Roman, 10 pt).
2. Title Page: The title page contains the following information.
-Manuscript Title.
-Author name(s) and the affiliation(s) with indication and active e-mail address of the corresponding author and ORCID (if available). For unaffiliated authors, we will only request their country and city of residence, as well as their email address.
-Acknowledgments
-Author contribution
-Funding
-Data availability
-Declarations
Because the review of articles is double-blind, these sections are written on the title page by the author and in the final version are moved to the end of the article (before the reference section) by the author or page designer.
3. A full-text manuscript (without author names and affiliations) including tables and figures embedded in the appropriate places within the text is required (If the file size is too large at this stage, Authors can use low-resolution images within the text).
Moreover, Illustrations (line drawings (600 dpi or higher) and half-tone pictures (300 dpi or higher) should be submitted separately as .tiff format. Phylogenetic trees are only accepted when submitted as PowerPoint files or in .tiff format.
Please 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, CRediT AUTHOR STATEMENT, and REFERENCES. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION can be merged.
KEYWORDS (not be included in 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 2.5 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 chronological, 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 May 2024).
Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, date, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be provided. 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 chapters in books, the names of editors, first and last page numbers of the articles, publisher, and place of publication are required.
Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author. Please organize references 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 APA format.
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://10.3852/12-107. (include DOI when available).
Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Mikhailov KV, Péter G, Aptroot A, Pires-Zottarelli CL, ... et al. 2024. Classes and phyla of the kingdom Fungi. Fungal diversity 1-165. https://10.1007/s13225-024-00540-z. (for articles with more than ten authors).
White TJ, Bruns TD, Lee S, Taylor J. 1990. Article title. In: Book title. (Innis MA, Gelfand JJ, Sninsky DH and WhiteTJ, eds): 11-30. Press, Country. (For Bock 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, 9-14 Sept., 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).
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 letter of acceptance and the article's full text should be made available to the referees upon request.
Do not include personal communication, unpublished data, manuscripts, or partial page numbers from books and theses; place such references in the text.
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, RَAPD, RFLP, rDNA, and 18S rRDA. 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 lodged in GenBank, voucher specimens in IRAN, or another 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. For new taxa or names, a MycoBank number is required (see www.MycoBank.org).
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, culture ex-type CBS xxx. (Example: IRAN 2043 F); ex-type sequence: ITS-rDNA = xxx, TEF1 = xxx.
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.
All collections or specimens should also deposited in the international herbarium.
5. Use ‘–’ (en-dash) for the minus sign and all kinds of ranges, not an ordinary hyphen. 4–5 × 7–10 µm, Fig. 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 Fig. 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 is given in full. Do not start paragraphs or sentences with abbreviations if this can be helped. Blumeria graminisis a super pathogen. NOT: B. graminisis 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 following example:
Nemania hyrcana Pourmoghaddam, Voglmayr & A. Khodap., sp. nov.; Figs. 2, 3.
MycoBank: 845436
Holotype: Iran, Guilan Province, Astara County, Darband Forest, 38°21'26"N, 48°50'19"E, 17 m elev., on fallen branch of Parrotia persica, 7 October 2017, M.J. Pourmoghaddam (GUM 1628; living culture MUCL 57704).
Etymology: The epithet is derived from “Hyrcania”, an ancient biogeographical region, located in the south of the Caspian Sea where the specimens were collected. (Note: Hanging is required for all lines after the first line).
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. Please 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. Authorship issues or Disagreements
If authors disagree during peer review, after acceptance, or publication, the journal can not 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.
19. Confidentiality
Authors should keep all communication with the Journal confidential including correspondence with Editors-in-Chief, section Editors, and reviewers’ reports.
20. Author's contributions: The Mycologia Iranica requires all authors to accept responsibility for the content 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.
21. Funding:We asked 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 is 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″.
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.
23. 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 1: 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.
24. Please note that If the manuscript does not adhere to the journal's format, it will be returned to the author for revision.
25. 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 to check the status of current submissions.
Once logged in, you will find the online submission system by clicking the "Submit new manuscript" button.
The manuscript submission process is very easy and user-friendly.
Note: All articles, after acceptance and final revision by the author, 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.
CONTACT TO:
S.A. Khodaparast, Editor-in-Chief
Department of Plant Protection
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
University of Guilan
Rasht 4199613769, Iran
Email: khodaparast@guilan.ac.ir