How to format your references using the Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology citation style

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

Zamir D (2014) Botany. A wake-up call with coffee. Science 345:1124

A journal article with 2 authors

Langley JA, Megonigal JP (2010) Ecosystem response to elevated CO(2) levels limited by nitrogen-induced plant species shift. Nature 466:96–99

A journal article with 3 authors

Yamamoto Y, Stock DW, Jeffery WR (2004) Hedgehog signalling controls eye degeneration in blind cavefish. Nature 431:844–847

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Barrangou R, Fremaux C, Deveau H, et al (2007) CRISPR provides acquired resistance against viruses in prokaryotes. Science 315:1709–1712

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertocchi M, Schwartz SL, Ziemba WT (2010) Optimizing the Aging, Retirement, and Pensions Dilemma. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Londral AR, Encarnação P (eds) (2016) Advances in Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics: Revised Selected Papers from the 2nd International Congress on Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics (NEUROTECHNIX 2014), October 25-26, Rome, Italy. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Matsumoto N (2009) Gene Analysis of Marfan Syndrome. In: Kazui T, Takamoto S (eds) Advances in Understanding Aortic Diseases. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 23–27

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 Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology.

Blog post

Andrews R (2017) Energy Department’s Climate Office Banned From Using Phrase “Climate Change.” In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/energy-department-climate-office-banned-phrase-climate-change/. 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Status of Emergency and State and Local Law Enforcement Systems Is Still Unknown. 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

Johnson L (2017) The Relationship between Mock Jurors’ Locus of Control, Belief in a Just World, and an NGRI Verdict. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Barker K, Taylor K (2014) Teacher Known as Cool Friend, Until His Arrest. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zamir 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Langley and Megonigal 2010; Zamir 2014).

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

Two authors: (Langley and Megonigal 2010)
Three or more authors: (Barrangou et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
Abbreviation	Contrib. Mineral. Petrol.
ISSN (print)	0010-7999
ISSN (online)	1432-0967
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics