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]

Bertrand G. Chemistry. The modest undressing of a silicon center. Science 2004;305:783–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Harris SE, Bellino M. IBI* series winner. DNA barcoding from NYC to Belize. Science 2013;342:1462–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Cao A, Romanowicz B, Takeuchi N. An observation of PKJKP: inferences on inner core shear properties. Science 2005;308:1453–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Graetz N, Friedman J, Osgood-Zimmerman A, Burstein R, Biehl MH, Shields C, et al. Mapping local variation in educational attainment across Africa. Nature 2018;555:48–53.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Millon T, Grossman S. Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

[1]

Wang X, Wang ZM, editors. High-Efficiency Solar Cells: Physics, Materials, and Devices. vol. 190. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Peters JF, Ramanna S. Feature Selection: Near Set Approach. In: Raś ZW, Tsumoto S, Zighed D, editors. Mining Complex Data: ECML/PKDD 2007 Third International Workshop, MCD 2007, Warsaw, Poland, September 17-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 57–71.

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]

Andrew E. What Was That Huge Flash Over Russia? IFLScience 2014.

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. Aircraft Noise: Status and Management of FAA’s West Coast Plan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Milliken DE. Blood pressure measurement in the primary care provider setting: A project evaluating the blood pressure technique of nursing staff. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

Billard M. Saves Those Stripes, Grab Some Scarves. New York Times 2010:E5.

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