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

John S (2009) Photonics: Light control at will. Nature 460:337

A journal article with 2 authors

McLennan MR, Hockings KJ (2014) Wild chimpanzees show group differences in selection of agricultural crops. Sci Rep 4:5956

A journal article with 3 authors

Gertz J, Siggia ED, Cohen BA (2009) Analysis of combinatorial cis-regulation in synthetic and genomic promoters. Nature 457:215–218

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang Z-L, Guo R, Ding L-X, et al (2013) Controllable template-assisted electrodeposition of single- and multi-walled nanotube arrays for electrochemical energy storage. Sci Rep 3:1204

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aasma A, Dutta H, Natarajan PN (2017) An Introductory Course in Summability Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ma H (2012) China’s Energy Economy: Situation, Reforms, Behavior, and Energy Intensity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Yoshihara N (2008) On Non-Welfarist Social Ordering Functions. In: Pattanaik PK, Tadenuma K, Xu Y, Yoshihara N (eds) Rational Choice and Social Welfare: Theory and Applications Essays in Honor of Kotaro Suzumura. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–67

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

Davis J (2015) Mushroom Used in Chinese Medicine Could Slow Weight Gain, Study Reports. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mushroom-used-chinese-medicine-could-slow-weight-gain-study-reports/. 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 (1978) Need for Full Cost Reporting and Participating Agreement on SEASAT-A Project. 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

Simone PS (2012) A mixed methods study of culturally proficient practices in an elementary school. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Sisario B (2017) Beyoncé and Radiohead to Headline Coachella. New York Times C3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (John 2009).
This sentence cites two references (John 2009; McLennan and Hockings 2014).

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

Two authors: (McLennan and Hockings 2014)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2013)

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