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

Kirchner, J.W. (2002) Evolutionary speed limits inferred from the fossil record. Nature, 415, 65–68.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heimann, M., and Reichstein, M. (2008) Terrestrial ecosystem carbon dynamics and climate feedbacks. Nature, 451, 289–292.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, D., Lin, B.-J., and Lee, A.K. (2012) Hippocampal place fields emerge upon single-cell manipulation of excitability during behavior. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337, 849–853.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Das, S.K., Eder, S., Schauer, S., Diwoky, C., Temmel, H., Guertl, B., Gorkiewicz, G., Tamilarasan, K.P., Kumari, P., Trauner, M., and others (2011) Adipose triglyceride lipase contributes to cancer-associated cachexia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333, 233–238.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benchaib, A. (2015) Advanced Control of AC/DC Power Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kobayashi, Takayoshi, Okada, T., Kobayashi, Tetsuro, Nelson, K.A., and Silvestri, S.D., Eds. (2005) Ultrafast Phenomena XIV: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference, Niigata, Japan, July 25–30, 2004, XXXV, 907 p. 577 illus p. Vol. 79. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Abedi, S., Arvani, A., and Jamalzadeh, R. (2015) Cyber Security of Plug-in Electric Vehicles in Smart Grids: Application of Intrusion Detection Methods. In S. Rajakaruna, F. Shahnia, and A. Ghosh, Eds., Plug In Electric Vehicles in Smart Grids: Integration Techniques pp. 129–147. Springer, Singapore.

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

Fang, J. (2014, August 6) Small Dog-Sized Dinosaur Discovered in Venezuela. 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 (1987) ADP Budget: Analysis of SSA’s Fiscal Year 1988 Information Technology Systems Request. 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

Razo, S.I. (2009) Parenting practices of Latina mothers and children’s behavior outcomes. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, September 19) Can’t Recall Where You Were? That’s the Point. New York Times, p. C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kirchner 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Kirchner 2002; Heimann and Reichstein 2008).

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

Two authors: (Heimann and Reichstein 2008)
Three or more authors: (Das et al. 2011)

About the journal

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