How to format your references using the Journal of Sustainable Mining citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Sustainable Mining. 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

Kleiner, K. (2007). The shipping forecast. Nature, 449(7160), 272–273.

A journal article with 2 authors

Frede, J., & Jones, P. H. (2013). Development. Permission to proliferate. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6163), 1183–1184.

A journal article with 3 authors

Childers, S. E., Ciufo, S., & Lovley, D. R. (2002). Geobacter metallireducens accesses insoluble Fe(III) oxide by chemotaxis. Nature, 416(6882), 767–769.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Ettwig, K. F., Butler, M. K., Le Paslier, D., Pelletier, E., Mangenot, S., Kuypers, M. M. M., Schreiber, F., Dutilh, B. E., Zedelius, J., de Beer, D., Gloerich, J., Wessels, H. J. C. T., van Alen, T., Luesken, F., Wu, M. L., van de Pas-Schoonen, K. T., Op den Camp, H. J. M., Janssen-Megens, E. M., Francoijs, K.-J., … Strous, M. (2010). Nitrite-driven anaerobic methane oxidation by oxygenic bacteria. Nature, 464(7288), 543–548.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bunker, G., & Thomson, D. (2006). Delivering Utility Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Braun, D. (2013). Polymer Synthesis: Theory and Practice: Fundamentals, Methods, Experiments (H. Cherdron, M. Rehahn, H. Ritter, & B. Voit, Eds.; 5th ed. 2013). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Patiño, A., & Romero, M. (2015). Identifying Pedagogical Uses of Serious Games for Learning English as a Second Language. In A. De Gloria (Ed.), Games and Learning Alliance: Third International Conference, GALA 2014, Bucharest, Romania, July 2-4, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 31–43). Springer International Publishing.

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 Journal of Sustainable Mining.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, September 26). Birds Evolved From Dinosaurs Gradually, Capped With Diversity Burst. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/birds-evolved-dinosaurs-gradually-capped-diversity-burst/

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. (1999). Aviation Competition: Information on the Department of Transportation’s Proposed Policy (RCED-99-225). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Romano, T. A. (2014). Time-frequency classification of gamma oscillatory activity in the frontoparietal system during working memory [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida Atlantic University.

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

Barron, J. (2017, August 27). Fitzgerald, Princeton and a Thoroughly Fictitious Theft. New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kleiner, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Frede & Jones, 2013; Kleiner, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Frede & Jones, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Ettwig et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Sustainable Mining
Abbreviation	J. Sustain. Min.
ISSN (print)	2300-3960
Scope