How to format your references using the International Journal of Mineral Processing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Mineral Processing. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Butler, D., 2003. Developing-world health: the fightback starts here. Nature 426, 754.
A journal article with 2 authors
Nestler, E.J., Landsman, D., 2001. Learning about addiction from the genome. Nature 409, 834–835.
A journal article with 3 authors
Alimardani, M., Nishio, S., Ishiguro, H., 2013. Humanlike robot hands controlled by brain activity arouse illusion of ownership in operators. Sci. Rep. 3, 2396.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Tom, S.M., Fox, C.R., Trepel, C., Poldrack, R.A., 2007. The neural basis of loss aversion in decision-making under risk. Science 315, 515–518.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Saguet, P., 2013. Numerical Analysis in Electromagnetics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.
An edited book
Chen, P., 2005. Optimal Control Models in Finance: A New Computational Approach, Applied Optimization. Springer US, Boston, MA.
A chapter in an edited book
Rührmair, U., Busch, H., Katzenbeisser, S., 2010. Strong PUFs: Models, Constructions, and Security Proofs, in: Sadeghi, A.-R., Naccache, D. (Eds.), Towards Hardware-Intrinsic Security: Foundations and Practice, Information Security and Cryptography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 79–96.

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 International Journal of Mineral Processing.

Blog post
Carpineti, A., 2017. Curiosity Takes A Deeper Look At The Sand Dunes Of Mars [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/curiosity-takes-a-deeper-look-at-the-sand-dunes-of-mars/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2012. Air Passenger Screening: Transportation Security Administration Could Improve Complaint Processes (No. GAO-13-43). 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
Payne, L.G., 2015. The experience of caring for women with drug or alcohol problems in the general hospital (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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
Feeney, K., 2006. Warming Up to Sausage and Dogs. New York Times NJ13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butler, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Butler, 2003; Nestler and Landsman, 2001).

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

  • Two authors: (Nestler and Landsman, 2001)
  • Three or more authors: (Tom et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal titleInternational Journal of Mineral Processing
AbbreviationInt. J. Miner. Process.
ISSN (print)0301-7516
ScopeGeochemistry and Petrology
Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

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