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

Ruth, T., 2009. Accelerating production of medical isotopes. Nature 457, 536–537.

A journal article with 2 authors

Griffin, T.M., Kram, R., 2000. Penguin waddling is not wasteful. Nature 408, 929.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ridgwell, A.J., Kennedy, M.J., Caldeira, K., 2003. Carbonate deposition, climate stability, and Neoproterozoic ice ages. Science 302, 859–862.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fleischer, J.W., Segev, M., Efremidis, N.K., Christodoulides, D.N., 2003. Observation of two-dimensional discrete solitons in optically induced nonlinear photonic lattices. Nature 422, 147–150.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benmammar, B., Amraoui, A., 2013. Radio Resource Allocation and Dynamic Spectrum Access. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Portugali, J. (Ed.), 2006. Complex Artificial Environments: Simulation, Cognition and VR in the Study and Planning of Cities. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Leonard, J., How, J., Teller, S., Berger, M., Campbell, S., Fiore, G., Fletcher, L., Frazzoli, E., Huang, A., Karaman, S., Koch, O., Kuwata, Y., Moore, D., Olson, E., Peters, S., Teo, J., Truax, R., Walter, M., Barrett, D., Epstein, A., Maheloni, K., Moyer, K., Jones, T., Buckley, R., Antone, M., Galejs, R., Krishnamurthy, S., Williams, J., 2009. A Perception-Driven Autonomous Urban Vehicle, in: Buehler, M., Iagnemma, K., Singh, S. (Eds.), The DARPA Urban Challenge: Autonomous Vehicles in City Traffic, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 163–230.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Researchers Image What They Believe To Be Smallest Life Possible [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-image-what-they-believe-be-smallest-life-possible/ (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, 1996. Transportation Enhancements: Status of the $2.4 Billion Authorized for Nonmotorized Transportation (No. RCED-96-156). 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

Safarian Bahri, P., 2017. Erosion Rate Prediction Model for Levee-Floodwall Overtopping Applications in Fine-Grained Soils (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Brantley, B., 2016. A Potluck of Anxiety as a Family Gathers in an Election Season. 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 (Ruth, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Griffin and Kram, 2000; Ruth, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Griffin and Kram, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Fleischer et al., 2003)

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

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