How to format your references using the American Mineralogist citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Mineralogist. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Lambert, J.B. (2008) Chemistry. A tamed reactive intermediate. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322, 1333–1334.

A journal article with 2 authors

Collins, F.S., and Manolio, T.A. (2007) Merging and emerging cohorts: necessary but not sufficient. Nature, 445, 259.

A journal article with 3 authors

Flower, T.P., Gribble, M., and Ridley, A.R. (2014) Deception by flexible alarm mimicry in an African bird. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344, 513–516.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wee, F.H., Malek, F., Al-Amani, A.U., and Ghani, F. (2014) Effect of two different superstrate layers on bismuth titanate (BiT) array antennas. Scientific reports, 4, 3709.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris, S.A. (2011) Food and Package Engineering. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Cohen, Y.E., Popper, A.N., and Fay, R.R., Eds. (2013) Neural Correlates of Auditory Cognition, XIV, 330 p p. Vol. 45. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Mor, M., and Lodola, A. (2009) Pharmacological Tools in Endocannabinoid Neurobiology. In D. Kendall and S. Alexander, Eds., Behavioral Neurobiology of the Endocannabinoid System pp. 87–110. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 American Mineralogist.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, April 25) New Gene-Editing Technique Can Change A Single Base In DNA. IFLScience. 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 (1998) Charter Schools: Federal Funding Available but Barriers Exist. 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

Greenhall, J.A. (2008) Elucidating mechanisms of accelerated neurological aging. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

Haigney, S. (2017, August 11) A Stolen de Kooning Emerges Decades Later. New York Times, p. C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lambert 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Collins and Manolio 2007; Lambert 2008).

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

Two authors: (Collins and Manolio 2007)
Three or more authors: (Wee et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	American Mineralogist
Abbreviation	Am. Mineral.
ISSN (print)	0003-004X
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics