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:

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

Schimmel, P., 2015. Alexander Rich (1924-2015). Nature 521, 291.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nitzan, A., Ratner, M.A., 2003. Electron transport in molecular wire junctions. Science 300, 1384–1389.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arnqvist, G., Jones, T.M., Elgar, M.A., 2003. Insect behaviour: reversal of sex roles in nuptial feeding. Nature 424, 387.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Batrakov, K., Kuzhir, P., Maksimenko, S., Paddubskaya, A., Voronovich, S., Lambin, P., Kaplas, T., Svirko, Y., 2014. Flexible transparent graphene/polymer multilayers for efficient electromagnetic field absorption. Sci. Rep. 4, 7191.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, 2000. Guidelines for Process Safety in Outsourced Manufacturing Operations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Di Benedetto, M.-G., Cattoni, A.F., Fiorina, J., Bader, F., De Nardis, L. (Eds.), 2015. Cognitive Radio and Networking for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks: Recent Advances and Visions for the Future, Signals and Communication Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Monnier, P., 2011. Equipment and Instrumentation for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopy, in: Monnier, P. (Ed.), Pediatric Airway Surgery: Management of Laryngotracheal Stenosis in Infants and Children. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 45–75.

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

Hale, T., 2015. If We Don’t Cut Our Carbon Emissions, This Is What The World Will Look Like By 2100 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/if-we-dont-address-our-carbon-emissions-how-world-will-look-100-years/ (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, 1988. FAA’s Implementation of the Expanded East Coast Plan (No. T-RCED-88-39). 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

Enriquez, M., 2010. Music therapy to hospice patients of Visiting Nurse Association of Inland Counties: A grant proposal (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

Wagner, J., 2017. Baseball; Mets’ Wright Has Another Operation. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schimmel, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Nitzan and Ratner, 2003; Schimmel, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Nitzan and Ratner, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Batrakov et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Mineral Processing
Abbreviation	Int. J. Miner. Process.
ISSN (print)	0301-7516
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology