How to format your references using the International Journal of Mining Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Mining Science and Technology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

Diehl MR. Biochemistry. Templating a molecular tug-of-war. Science 2012;338:626–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Heimann M, Reichstein M. Terrestrial ecosystem carbon dynamics and climate feedbacks. Nature 2008;451:289–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Blair AC, Fisher ER, Rickey D. IBI* series winner. Discovering nanoscience. Science 2012;337:1056–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kalas P, Graham JR, Chiang E, Fitzgerald MP, Clampin M, Kite ES, et al. Optical images of an exosolar planet 25 light-years from Earth. Science 2008;322:1345–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bain BJ, Wild BJ, Stephens AD, Phelan LA. Variant Haemoglobins. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Tkacz E, Kapczynski A, editors. Internet – Technical Development and Applications. vol. 64. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Helbing D, Johansson A. On the Controversy Around Daganzo’s Requiem for and Aw–Rascle’s Resurrection of Second-Order Traffic Flow Models. In: Bressan A, Helbing D, Klar A, Zuazua E, editors. Modelling and Optimisation of Flows on Networks: Cetraro, Italy 2009, Editors: Benedetto Piccoli, Michel Rascle, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 271–302.

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 Mining Science and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Greenland’s Ice Loss Has Been Massively Underestimated. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/greenlands-ice-loss-has-been-massively-underestimated/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Loan Monitoring System: SBA Needs to Evaluate Use of Software. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lee Y. Lexical Stress Features Affecting the Recognition of English Loanwords in Korean by Native English Hearers. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 2017.

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

[1]

Schmidt MS. In a Private Dinner, Trump Demanded Loyalty. Comey Demurred. New York Times 2017:A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Mining Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Min. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	2095-2686
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology Energy Engineering and Power Technology