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

Büttiker, M., 2006. Physics. Detecting and controlling electron correlations. Science 313, 1587–1588.

A journal article with 2 authors

Malin, M.C., Edgett, K.S., 2003. Evidence for persistent flow and aqueous sedimentation on early Mars. Science 302, 1931–1934.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rockman, H.A., Koch, W.J., Lefkowitz, R.J., 2002. Seven-transmembrane-spanning receptors and heart function. Nature 415, 206–212.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Monteiro, J.M., Pereira, A.R., Reichmann, N.T., Saraiva, B.M., Fernandes, P.B., Veiga, H., Tavares, A.C., Santos, M., Ferreira, M.T., Macário, V., VanNieuwenhze, M.S., Filipe, S.R., Pinho, M.G., 2018. Peptidoglycan synthesis drives an FtsZ-treadmilling-independent step of cytokinesis. Nature 554, 528–532.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wagner, D., 2012. Trading ETFs. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kellomäki, S., Kilpeläinen, A., Alam, A. (Eds.), 2013. Forest BioEnergy Production: Management, Carbon sequestration and Adaptation. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Dawson, P.A., 2011. Role of the Intestinal Bile Acid Transporters in Bile Acid and Drug Disposition, in: Fromm, M.F., Kim, R.B. (Eds.), Drug Transporters, Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 169–203.

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., 2016. Check Out What Happens When You Fill A Six-Foot Balloon With Liquid Nitrogen [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/check-out-what-happens-when-you-fill-a-sixfoot-balloon-with-liquid-nitrogen/ (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, 1982. Information Resource Management Problems in the Department of Commerce (No. CED-82-113). 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

Allard, L., 2006. Exposure to Low-Level Ionizing Radiation and Risk of Leukemia and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in Participants of the Fernald Medical Monitoring Program (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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., 2008. Hearty, and Classic, Favorites. New York Times NJ9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Büttiker, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Büttiker, 2006; Malin and Edgett, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Malin and Edgett, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Monteiro et al., 2018)

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